you mean like the Christian fundamentalists getting together and voting for someone they mistakenly think reflects their beliefs? How is that different ?
I assume you don't think we should overthrow THAT government, or if you do I am out of this thread, which is at best dangerous for me anyway. But I am having more and more of these orwellian conversations with people I would otherwise consider intelligent and it's actually pretty scary. Gruss, are you actually saying that the US should second-guess elections in other countries? And that socialist=dictator? Dana On 1/8/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dana wrote: > > Yes but either you have faith in democracy or you don't. > > You're aware that democracy can fail if not implemented correctly, > right? Let me try an analogy: > > Let's say that NM decides to vote on a minister of education and you > can vote for anybody. The results come in and psychopathic communist > is elected. Why? Because X million New Mexicans voted for X-Y > millions of candidates. But the commies had their act together and > all 10,000 of them voted for the same guy. Now, even though only 1 in > 100,000 people support the new minister, he retools education to > include only the study of Stalin and eliminates home school. Has > democracy worked? No. Does that mean democracy is a failure? No. > It just wasn't implemented correctly. > > I believe the same thing has happened in Venezuela. > > > > Just because people vote doesn't mean things will work out. 1000 > > > people can elect a dictator even if 100 million vote. It just depends > > > on the system. I have no confidence in Venezuela's democracy and, > > > apparently, they agree with me. > > > > Just curious, who is "they" in the above sentence? > > > > The Venezuelans! 1000s are marching in the streets calling for Chavez > to resign and there's talk of coups left and right. Apparently they > don't believe in their form of government or democracy. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:191111 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
