Claim 191cfcc5
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“People should fight for the birthright to mismanage their own country rather than be mismanaged by somebody else.”
Interpreted asmetaphor
“People should fight for the right to govern their own country, even if they govern it poorly, instead of having it governed poorly by outsiders.”
The claim asserts that people ought to prefer and fight for self-government despite poor governance, making it a normative value judgment rather than a testable fact or causal claim.
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I haven’t given up a successful career, I haven’t given up all my free time, I haven’t given up all my hobbies just because I want to be a politician. I’m in this out of conviction
The problem with that line of thinking is that, however rotten and bad we may view our political class at any given time, as long as we have a parliamentary democracy we have the power to change it, because we have the power to sack everybody and bring in new people with fresh political ideas. What you cannot do in this European system is change anything, because it’s the civil servants – the Commission – that have the power.
I often joke that we should fight for the birthright to mismanage our own country rather than be mismanaged by somebody else. Having the ability to change our own destiny is very, very important. If you think about it, it’s the essence of parliamentary democracy.
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