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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (78486)10/17/2004 8:20:06 PM
From: Ilaine   of 793939
 
>>THE fact that so many Americans are prepared to buy "alternative histories," as presented by the arch-liar Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," and more than 200 books built on conspiracy theories, must be seen as a sign that American democracy is unwell.

I would say that it's actually an artifact of universal democracy. The "paranoid style" of American politics really got going during what the spread of what we term Jacksonian democracy, the enfranchisement of the Great Unwashed.

Many of whom live their entire lives far from the levers of power, and have only the vaguest notions about how things really work.
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