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Old 08-06-2020, 14:01   #3
Ret10Echo
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Originally Posted by Box View Post
I'm guessing well over 90% of the US Congress could be dissolved under rules like that.


I wonder what an ancient Greek philosophizer would say about some silly shit like this ??
I hear gears whirring....


Or in the words of James Madison:

“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”
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