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>From: flw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Re: [CTRL] The Poverty of Electoral Politics
>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:44:20 -0500
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>Eric Stewart says in part:
> >>Roughly speaking we can distinguish five degrees of “government”:
>
> (1) Unrestricted freedom
> (2) Direct democracy
> (3) Delegate democracy
> (4) Representative democracy
> (5) Overt minority dictatorship
>
> >>Overt dictators may sometimes be overthrown, but the real rulers
>in “democratic” regimes, the tiny minority who own or control virtually
>everything, are never voted in and never voted out. Most people don’t even
> >>know who they are. . . .
>
>Some comments.
>
>Unrestricted mass democracy can be as dangerous, bloody and
>evil as any tyrannical dictatorship. Democracy has been defined as
>3 wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
even in a case where there are three sheep and one wolf, two of the sheep
are likey to go along with the wolf because of the wolf's known disposition
and capabilities...
>
>I agree that the "real power" in the world's democratic states are the
>hidden elite who own the politicopaths who serve their interest.
>
>In any system you will ALWAYS have an elite who due to personality
>disorders have an obsessive need for power and wealth. The only way
>to minimize the effect of the Power Elite is to minimize the power of
>government over its citizens.
or maximize the accountability of government to its citizens and maximize
the accountability of the wolf to the other 99 sheep [a more realistic ratio
i believe]
>
>A casual study of American History clearly demonstrates that the Power
>Elite depend on Government to further their interests.
any system in which a mandate is created will have the power elite AND the
powerless looking to government to mediate...it should be the role of
government to level the playing field...
>From the early Land Speculators, to the
>Railroad Magnates to the Corporate Robber Barons - all
>needed the power of government in order to thrive. In that way they operate
>very much like the Power Elite of of all political systems, whether they be
>"the Nobility"; the
>"Monarchists"; the"Capitalists" or the "Socialists."
>
>If you want to stop the Government Bulldozer from smashing down the
>peaceful villiage and rolling over the inhabitants, smash the engine.
>Then the driver of the dozer will sit in frustrated, helpless fury while
>the
>people point and laugh.
i love makida drills...
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