A working republic consists of the government, the governed and a neutral third party mediator called the Constitution.
A working democracy is a fundamental agreement between an enlightened leadership and a non-political electorate, the latter participating in free elections that don't actually change anything.
The most basic progressive belief is that if we can get the rich to pay their fair share, we won't have to pay ours.
The most basic conservative belief is that if you weren't born to opportunity, you had your chance.
A political party is like any other conspiracy, the people it targets believing they are part of the conspiracy.
If we of the middle class nearly always support the rich over the poor, it is because we rightly believe that the poor want what we have while wrongly believing that the rich don't.
A free-enterprise system is a meritocracy where a few enterprising people eventually control most of the wealth, and where, if left unbridled, the most enterprising person eventually controls all the wealth.
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