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Beringia

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4. I did some research on the concept of "the greatest good for the greatest number"

Reply to I_UndergroundPanther (Original post)

Sun Oct 6, 2019, 08:06 PM

Oct 2019

or Utilitarianism, and this concept was used to preserve the forest system for instance, when the president was Theodore Roosevelt, who was a republican for a while and also started a new party of progressives, the bull-moose party. The platform asserted that "to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day". Roosevelt was a trust-buster.

I think republicans today go by the maxim, "the greatest good for me".

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I hope with every fiber of my being [View all] I_UndergroundPanther Oct 2019 OP

I agree, and not harsh your mellow, cilla4progress Oct 2019 #1

I agree but the only way we can beat the reTHUGS is to keep them abqtommy Oct 2019 #2

So you're not in favor of a two-party system? cwydro Oct 2019 #3

I want the Republican Party to die. hunter Oct 2019 #5

Yes, the GOP must die. RobertDevereaux Oct 2019 #8

what moderates? rurallib Oct 2019 #7

I did some research on the concept of "the greatest good for the greatest number" Beringia Oct 2019 #4

It's probably easy to eradicate the (R)epuglicon party. Harder make them reasonable, open-to- erronis Oct 2019 #6