on 13/11/00 5:55 pm, Marvin Long, Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Thank you Gord for a lovely and thoughtful post. Hits the nail on the
> head, as far as I'm concerned.
>
> I sometimes feel that we're still running the beta version of democracy
> here in America, or perhaps we're running Democracy 1.0 while everybody
> else is running something between Democrocacy 2.0 and 3.1. But we're like
> one of those giant companies that runs on mainframes developed in the
> seventies and refuses to change because the up-front cost of changing is
> so high.
Or maybe the cargo cult version of democracy...
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William T Goodall
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