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To: flatsville who wrote (18474)9/14/2000 5:26:32 PM
From: Oblomov  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
Flats, I agree that such a system would be problematic to implement, and so I advocate it only tentatively. I certainly would not desire a class war or a Brazil-style timocracy.

Maybe you do not experience the same feelings that I do in regard to our present political system. It seems to me that so many Americans (no connection to race and class) take the idea of individual freedom lightly. They seem willing to throw away once-cherished freedoms in the name of uplifting humanity. I think that this type of "progress" eventually creates two major classes with mutually exclusive interests. And, so, the conditions for a class war are inherent in out current system, too.

So, what is to be done? Should the status quo be defended?
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