TIME's Joel Stein: "We need a good dictator"

[Knightskye]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1927281,00.html

In fact, we need a dictator to do all kinds of things. I want a law making all Internet browsers' default setting block pornography and for that setting to be difficult, but not too difficult, to change. I want all alarm clocks, when they go off, to mention going to the gym. I think there should be limits on when you can sue, a ban on guns not used for hunting, parenting licenses enforced by social-services visits, more obstacles to post-first-trimester abortions and a European-size tax on gasoline. Soda should be sold in containers no bigger than 8 oz. People should pay for their garbage by weight. And their plane tickets.

Via NewsBusters (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/10/03/joking-times-joel-stein-dreams-obama-dictatorship)

I hope he's not serious.

[0zzy]

he is. this comes from the guy who tells the story of how his wife ate her placenta, he used to work for the daily show too.

[Knightskye]

he is. this comes from the guy who tells the story of how his wife ate her placenta, he used to work for the daily show too.

Good googly moogly.

[specsaregood]

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[NYgs23]

Oh, please. He's not serious.

[1000-points-of-fright]

The truth is that most people WANT a dictator. They want to be able to look at one person and say HE is in charge. Why do you think the Presidency has become so powerful and is referred to as the leader of the free world?

Constitutionally, Congress is supposed to be in charge or at the very least equal to the President and the SCOTUS.

[Knightskye]

The truth is that most people WANT a dictator. They want to be able to look at one person and say HE is in charge. Why do you think the Presidency has become so powerful and is referred to as the leader of the free world?

YouTube - 20/20 - Politically Incorrect Guide To Politics - Pt. 1 of 6 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phs6CwnutoY)

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[FindLiberty]

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years."

"Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, and from dependence back again to bondage."



lol,
default setting block pornography and for that setting to be difficult, but not too difficult

[BenIsForRon]

Oh, he's serious. Heres the last paragraph


Despite what you're thinking, I don't want to be the dictator. That's mostly because I'm already prone to bad haircuts. But also because instead of an actual dictator, I think what we need is to recognize that social mores require government nudges like the ones Bloomberg creates and Obama adviser Cass Sunstein advocates. We live in a connected age in which our liberties bump against one another. I know this is all easy to say since I'm not a smoker, a soda drinker or a columnist whom politicians listen to. But in an age of overwhelming choice, some dictatorial direction would help. Plus, then Obama wouldn't have to be on TV so much.