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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: aladin who wrote (34423)3/14/2004 6:48:01 PM
From: frankw1900   of 793841
 
Richard Gwyn almost gets it but he's still mired in the touchy feely nonsense:

Democracy is about compromise. It's about giving as well as taking. It's about living together

No it's not. It's about government without rulers.

The other stuff is necessary for democracy but it's not 'what it's about'.

(It's the government without rulers bit that drives extremists to distraction and terrorism because it's utterly indifferent to their desires - which mostly require rulers for their enablement).

I could carry on about the mindset of Eastern Canadian establishment types of which Gwyn is a member.

Suffice to say, a lot of them shy away from examing the fact that Canadian governments are in place only through the sufferance of the public.

From their point of view "living together" is not ever discussing, and surely not arguing about, anything unpleasant, and particularly not the dysfunctional aspects of the status quo.
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