2010/9/17 paul stenquist <[email protected]>: > > When leadership is ultimately determined at the ballot box, the interests of > the ruling party will eventually and inevitably come to reflect the interest > of the public -- even if there are temporary diversions from a logical > course. Of course there are the paranoid few at both fringes who believe that > a conspiracy of some sort dictates all. For those, I have no answers other > than "take your meds."
I'll agree with you any day that democracy is the least of all known evils as forms of government go. Nonetheless all democracies are flawed, some more, some less, by the self-serving actions of the politicians we elect to represent us, not by choice but for lack of alternatives and direct access to government. Imagine we stopped criticizing and monitoring them - it would be weeks, perhaps months, until we had a democratorship of some sort. And this is not at all paranoid thinking if you look at how many military dictatorships there are in the world and how in almost every nation there are extremists waiting to seize their opportunity. Governments tend to develop a life of their own without being exposed like that from time to time... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
