Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s bid to continue leading the Democratic Party when it takes control of the US Senate in January continued to falter Monday night as a key machinists’ union asked the New York senator to step aside and allow “a new generation to lead Senate Democrats.” In a letter, Brian Bryant, international president of the International Association of Machinists and…
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Not to comment on your conclusions at all, as we are all on our own journeys. However, if you’d like to explore this concept further I’d highly recommend reading Muammar Gaddafi’s Green Book. I don’t recommend the book because of who Muammar Gaddafi was as a person mind you, but because the book illustrates the many fallacies of the most popular form of so-called democracy found in the western world. It’s not very long, and the language is rather easy to understand relative to most political texts.
Interesting. I’m not sure I could take Gaddafi seriously. Nor do I have any desire to read anything he has written. Could you give me some of the talking points? I know that all sounds a bit rude but I am currently stuck in the middle of Infinite Jest and it’s going to be a long time before I finish that book and then next up is a book about how Grant fought for reconstruction and the U.S. ultimately fucked up real hard on that which set the stage for all the bullshit and basically one party system we have in our government. I would rather hear your thoughts on what Gadddfi has to say as opposed to reading his work. Sorry if that sounds rude!
Edit: or just downvote me I guess. Also I’m pretty sure the most popular form of democracy in the west is parliamentary democracy.