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I don't like the idea of any government controlling how I think. Also I feel that governments are not very good at their jobs. If those problems can be addressed I am OK with the policies you put forward. But my main problem was you caricaturing an entire political spectrum of opinions to make a point

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Have you found the government trying to control how you think via the long history of the public library system? I recall it was started by one Benjamin Franklin. Surely the liberals would have won by now.

As for caricaturing a point, there is of course a vast difference between the right to read what one wants and the government taking over the entire publishing industry and controlling what ideas are published.

> Have you found the government trying to control how you think via the long history of the public library system?

I was talking about government controlled education system.

> As for caricaturing a point, there is of course a vast difference between the right to read what one wants and the government taking over the entire publishing industry and controlling what ideas are published.

I was trying to point out the absurdity of caricatures with one of my own

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