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To: tejek who wrote (122725)	8/22/2000 2:05:47 AM
From: Eric K.	Read Replies (2) of 1571158

OT OT-- How exactly does a successful person justify voting for Al Gore?-- especially in regards to "We are for the people against the powerful?" This is my first time voting in a presidential election, but I am totally at a loss as to the thought process behind the Democrat party's economic success thesis. The overall argument seems to be that the "powerful" in this country are some sort of inorganic entity that parasitically siphons the resources of society as a whole. Aren't the powerful in this country people like Jerry Sanders or Andy Grove? Neither of these men came from lives of privilege. I believe a majority of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies come from no greater than middle class backgrounds. How's about any of the tens of thousands of Internet millionaires or long-term Microsoft employees? I don't understand how the whole thrust of a party's campaign can be based on the notion that the people in this country who have accomplished the most are evil and destroying everyone else. It sounds like a cheap rehash of Marxist thought. Haven't the last century and a half of human existence provided at least anecdotal evidence about the merits of capitalism? Would anyone honestly try to argue that the average person on this planet is worse off than the average person was one hundred years ago, two hundred years ago, five thousand years ago? Is the argument that average conditions are not improving quickly enough? I also don't understand the anti-corporate diatribes taking place. Again, there is some notion that wealth gets sucked away by these faceless, unnatural monsters. Don't the shareholders of a corporation get the profits? Given mutual fund ownership in this country, pension funds, university endowments, and individual ownership of stocks, isn't this money being distributed to shareholders? Are people who own stock evil for participating in the sucking of wealth from the people by corporations? Finally, why are Bore and WB the nominees of their parties? Both have largely inherited their positions and spent much of their lives being groomed for public "service"-- which is kind of a silly notion given that one of the basic ideals of this country's founding was that the most successful people in the country should spend some of their time devoted to running the country, rather than that people who have not had any particularly impressive worldly success of their own should inherit civic duties. -Eric

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