On 9 Nov 2008, at 23:04, Jon Louis Mann wrote: > > part of the reason government sometimes makes bad decisions is > because it attracts corrupt people, easily influenced by greedy, > unscrupulous lobbyists.
The American system was designed to have congress, senate, president and supreme court neutralise each other so that it's quite hard to corrupt. With the political consensus in the USA now so narrow (republicans and democrats are much closer than opposition parties in other western democracies) that's not working so well. The parties are now divided on peripheral issues like gay marriage and abortion which results in direct issue voting which is not what the system was designed to cope with. One party Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." ~Voltaire. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
