liberalogic said:But when people are not doing anything to strip you of your individual rights or of the rights of your fellow Americans, then you are not being tolerable; instead you are denying people something because you are uncomfortable with it. Well guess what...I'm uncomfortable with it too!
Yeah - it's a wacky, mixed-up world, and I don't think we'll ever make it quite perfect. Still, we try. There are templates for human governance - one being the establishment of policy by central government fiat; another, a little thing our founders referred to as "government of the people, by the people, and for the people". You have already expressed your preference for the former. Per the bolded portion of the quote, you seek to deprive me of my right to representative government.