{"id":421,"date":"2012-03-10T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T19:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2012-03-10T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T19:04:18","slug":"war-democracy-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/10\/war-democracy-save\/","title":{"rendered":"After Each War Little Less Democracy to Save"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">After Each War Little Less Democracy to Save&#8211;ANTI-WAR QUOTE BUTTON<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/Peace-Signs\/Buttons\/After-Each-War-Little-Less-Democracy-to-Save-ANTI-WAR-QUOTE-BUTTON.html\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/Great-Quotes\/Anti-War-Quotes\/Anti-War-Quote-3.gif\" alt=\"After Each War Little Less Democracy to Save--ANTI-WAR QUOTE BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"172\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/Peace-Signs\/Buttons\/After-Each-War-Little-Less-Democracy-to-Save-ANTI-WAR-QUOTE-BUTTON.html\">After Each War Little Less Democracy to Save&#8211;ANTI-WAR QUOTE BUTTON<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, magnets, posters, and sticker sheets can be accessed by scrolling down the product page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><strong>View more <a title=\"Anti-War Quote Peace Sign Buttons\" href=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/Peace-Sign-BUTTONS-Anti-War-Quotes-Peace-Sign-Buttons-Pins.html\">Anti-War Quote Buttons<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This antiwar quote pretty much speaks for itself.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t create democracy through the barrel of a gun.\u00a0 The relationship between war and democracy is yet another serious straying from the right relationship between means and ends.\u00a0 War has the means and war has the ends, but war is profoundly undemocratic, actually anti-democratic.\u00a0 There is something profoundly contradictory in telling entire nations, entire peoples, that they should be able to participate in democracy, but only if they choose certain things that we like.\u00a0 Some people may strain to make the connection between war and democracy by claiming that we have to go to war to protect our democracy that is threatened by people, usually much of the way around the world.\u00a0 If we are forced to kill people halfway around the world to protect our own national interest, then I would posit that such a national interest extends far beyond democracy into imperialism.\u00a0 If the only way we can have democracy is by preventing democracy by most of the world that I think that we should relinquish any title to being democratic.\u00a0 War degrades democracy.\u00a0 I vote for peace.\u00a0 What do you vote for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Each War Little Less Democracy to Save&#8211;ANTI-WAR QUOTE BUTTON After Each War Little Less Democracy to Save&#8211;ANTI-WAR QUOTE BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/10\/war-democracy-save\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,55],"tags":[60,91,272,92,766,82,723,203],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-war","category-top-pun-design-commentaries","tag-buttons-pins","tag-cool-design","tag-democracy","tag-imperialism","tag-national","tag-quotes","tag-top-pun","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>After Each War Little Less Democracy to Save | Anti-War, Top Pun Design Commentaries | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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