Louis Proyect wrote: > > Eugene Coyle wrote: > > A friend suggests that if we funded wars out of the property tax we > > would have no war. People seem to vote down any local spending -- for > > schools, parks, whatever. Let them vote down war. > > Not necessarily. If local spending is for a beefed-up police force, they > will often vote yes. I am afraid that we are dealing with an extremely > reactionary public in the USA. Perhaps some bloody reversals on the > battlefield might do the trick.
Not necessarily. We are dealing with a quite reactionary _voting_ public, that is with a slight majority among a minority. What the politics of the majority (non-voting) are (or might become under different conditions) remains to be determined. (Bloody reversals could work both ways.) Carrol
