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Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you.

Stefan Molyneux

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Stefan Molyneux
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 24
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Stefan Basil Molyneux
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