Flip this switch?

[costargh]

LOL are u joking or was that serious?

I LOL'ed at the reaction

[Rietie]

Why do people always gang up on communism?

I don't think communism was mentioned but if you must ask: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union

Also compare:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany

But that's just in practice.

See how magnificent it looks in THEORY.

LOL are u joking or was that serious?

Joking.






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Somewhat.
 

[Collin Li]

A good theory is practical. What I (thought) experimented with in year 10 and 11 showed me that it wasn't so much that "communism worked in theory, but not in practice" but instead, "communism doesn't even work in theory, let alone in practice."

[enwiabe]

Collin, practicable*. But otherwise yes. Communism doesn't take into account the need for checks and balances and therefore fails rather miserably. Checks and balances are one of the main reasons why democracy works the best out of all the theories of gov't postulated.

[Collin Li]

Collin, practicable*. But otherwise yes. Communism doesn't take into account the need for checks and balances and therefore fails rather miserably. Checks and balances are one of the main reasons why democracy works the best out of all the theories of gov't postulated.

I think you will find that most of the time the checks and balances are basically just individualist principles - democracy is kept in check when the individual has his or her own rights.

[enwiabe]

I think that without checks and balances like the governor general, you can get an irreponsible nitwit like old goughy to plunder the Australian economy. HOORAY DOUBLE DISSOLUTION BILL

(Yes, I'm saying I would rather not have had the Whitlam gov't. I still support the current labor government though)

[Rietie]

I think that without checks and balances like the governor general, you can get an irreponsible nitwit like old goughy to plunder the Australian economy. HOORAY DOUBLE DISSOLUTION BILL

(Yes, I'm saying I would rather not have had the Whitlam gov't. I still support the current labor government though)

My Politics teacher idealizes Gough and Hawkey.

[costargh]

There are sets of checks and balances within our whole legal system. I think they are pretty pivotal.

[enwiabe]

I think that without checks and balances like the governor general, you can get an irreponsible nitwit like old goughy to plunder the Australian economy. HOORAY DOUBLE DISSOLUTION BILL

(Yes, I'm saying I would rather not have had the Whitlam gov't. I still support the current labor government though)

My Politics teacher idealizes Gough and Hawkey.

His ideas were good, except his fiscal responsibility was non-existent and he was so reckless that he could have ruined Australia for decades to come. Thank god for checks and balances.

[Eriny]

I like checks and balances too and the dismissal was right. However, I like the enormous contribution Gough made to education in Australia. Perhaps 'free uni' in itself isn't the wisest thing ever, but making it accessible is. We now have an older generation of educated people which we otherwise probably wouldn't have (which would be to all our detriment - as in on a world-wide scale).