RE: Is government becoming irrelevant?

[Christoph Reuss]

Keith Hudson named 8 groupings:
> business leaders
> consumer associations
> media
> quangos [quasi-autonomous NGOs]
> focus groups/gallup polls
> academe
> think-tanks
> single-issue pressure groups
>
> So what are the "salient characteristics" of all these groupings?
> I suggest that we need only talk about one that's common to all of these.
> This is expertise.

I suggest that we need only talk about one that's common to all of these:
This is "power for money".  And that's the problem in the "one dollar one
vote" kind of 'democracy'...


> We are developing a new sort of "democracy". It's far more powerful than
> the old-fashioned electoral system of two centuries ago

"More powerful" in the sense of (concentrated) power but not in the sense of
democracy !

Chris



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