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Eric Stewart says in part:
>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...
Hmm.Seems to me you have a lot of misguided faith in "the power
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Nessie says in part:
>>The greatest amount off power exercised by the elites is exercised not
>>through government but through economics. The government doesn't run
>>this country. Corporations run this country.
You got it half right.
Of course "the government" and its politcopa
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Nessie wrote:
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> >In any system you will ALWAYS have an elite who due to personality
> disorders have an obsessive need for power and wealth.
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> This is only true in the case of systems in which money is used and
> people respect power. There are numerous, su
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>In any system you will ALWAYS have an elite who due to personality
disorders have an obsessive need for power and wealth.
This is only true in the case of systems in which money is used and
people respect power. There are numerous, successful cultures in which
neither happen. H
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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 d
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From: "Bureau of Public Secrets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bureau of Public Secrets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The Poverty of Electoral Politics
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 12:13:52 -0800
[Just to put the current election hoopla in perspective. . .]
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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 09:56:00 -0800
From: Bureau of Public Secrets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: The Poverty of Electoral Politics
[Just to put the current election hoopla in perspective. .