--- In [email protected], Jon Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In a 2002 interview, retiring congressman J.C. Watts said, "Here's the problem > with Washington: If you are explaining, you are losing." He was saying that public > policy is being made on the basis of bumper-sticker slogans rather than careful, > detailed deliberation, and not just among the electorate, but at the highest > levels. If our survival ever depends on adopting complex solutions, we are doomed. > > This has an implication for candidates for public office. No one gets elected on > platform planks that have to be explained, or that contain more an half a dozen > words. People don't make their electoral decisions on the basis of issues, but on > personalities or a sense of how the herd is moving. People don't want to have to > think. > > -- Jon ___________________________________________________________________
Jon, it has long been my contention (I picked it up from someone else, whose attribution has long been lost) that any law worth making can be stated in no more than a few sentences. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
