Michael Harney wrote:
>From: "Jim Sharkey" 
>> A forum I frequent has been having a discussion of how one 
>>would describe the political system of the United Federation of 
>>Planets. It seems to me to combine traits of two systems I 
>>generally don't think of as compatible, that is almost a sort of 
>>democratic communism.
>Assuming that democracy and communism are oposites is false.  

Note I said they've not compatible, which you agree with here:

>Democracy is a system of government, whereas communism is an 
>economic model.  The reason the two are usually incompatible is 
>because the people of a democracy generally don't trust the 
>government with un-checked power

With that out of the way, what political/economic model do you feel 
most closely resembles the UFP?

Jim

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