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There is nothing wrong with this, I guess government propaganda is really scaring some people. If it were like this arms manufacturing should be a crime and the
by boi_v2 13y ago
There is nothing wrong with this, I guess government propaganda is really scaring some people. If it were like this arms manufacturing should be a crime and the billionaires behind those factories should be in jail, you still live under democracy so government should fear you and not the other way round.
- saraid216 13y ago> you still live under democracy so government should fear you and not the other way round. Believe it or not, V for Vendetta is not actually a handbook on how to run a democracy.
- thenomad 13y agoOne could, however, argue that Thomas Jefferson had some valid points on democracies and the running therof. And it's him that V for Vendetta was riffing off: “A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!”
- goblin89 13y agoOn the other hand, a point could be made that it's totalitarian regimes where governments are afraid of their citizens (those in fear of losing their powers, especially illegitimately obtained, start suppressing freedoms and surveilling everyone).
- baddox 13y agoDemocracy is "rule by the people." You are not "the people," so you should fear democracy.