Re: Democracy is the opiate of the masses.

[Christoph Reuss]

Victor Milne wrote:
> So far as I know, democracy is working passably well in some countries such
> as the Scandinavian nations and the Netherlands. So maybe Jay's notion of
> democracy is limited to what's found in the USA--and I'll admit that what we
> have in Canada is only modestly better and has been deteriorating.

Since the Scandinavian nations (except Norway) and the Netherlands are now
in the EU, democracy is 'working' less and less in them.  All important
decisions are increasingly "shifted" to Brussels and [thus] the international
big biz.  ("The United States of Europe" is the aim, remember.)
Oligarchy with a democratic face (makEUp) is a more elegant way of
"managing the herd animals" than plain sincere scientocracy...

--Chris