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    Default Re: Dawn of a new EU - European Conservatives and Reformists Group springs into life

    if you were misunderstood, my apologies.
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    Default Re: Dawn of a new EU - European Conservatives and Reformists Group springs into life

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    if you were misunderstood, my apologies.
    I wouldn't call producing an educated public who are able to discuss and vote on issues in an intelligent matter (As they know the facts, etc) a form of authoritarianism.

    However, just thinking now, you probably thought I was saying "Make the choices for the public since they are uneducated". Which would be authoritarian. If you thought that, I wasn't meaning that. I apologise if I wasn't clear enough on the point.
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    Default Re: Dawn of a new EU - European Conservatives and Reformists Group springs into life

    Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
    I wouldn't call producing an educated public who are able to discuss and vote on issues in an intelligent matter (As they know the facts, etc) a form of authoritarianism.

    However, just thinking now, you probably thought I was saying "Make the choices for the public since they are uneducated". Which would be authoritarian. If you thought that, I wasn't meaning that. I apologise if I wasn't clear enough on the point.
    fair enough, it would seem that several of us were mistaken.

    for my part, my apologies.
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