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To: UnBelievable who wrote (33809)	11/4/2000 2:38:58 PM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (3) of 436258

>>>I Must Be Lost I thought this had something to do with market bubbles and predicting their popping and even making a few bucks in the process. But since the OT topic of the day seems to be politics I'll offer my 2 cents (since that's all I have left after Thursday and Friday's jam job).<<< Un- I think you have to look at it this way. Tempers run hot during the election season. People who might normally get along quite well the other 3 3/4 of the presidential election cycle take to suddenly bloodying each other with their political passions. You learn a lot about the people behind the monikers for better or worse. What I often wonder is given the divergent political views how we manage to have a similar disdain for the current market situation. (But I think I have a clue to that answer.) Trust me. No matter who wins Nov. 7 we'll promptly return to trashing the market and financial system because in reality little will have changed...at least in the short run. I'm afraid that anyone who believes this is a democracy, or for that matter that a democracy is an viable way in which to run a country should spend some time thinking about those beliefs. Are they yours? Or are they beliefs that were feed to you as a child, at home and at school, and reinforced thoughout your adult life by political commentators and analysts who perform the same function for the political status quo that stock analysts perform for the stock status quo. And even more important, does it really make any difference what you believe. Well, this is really a democratic republic. Nonetheless it should not have lasted 200+ years by any stretch of the imagination. I think it will be one of the more notable deliberate political experiments when all is said and done. And even more important, does it really make any difference what you believe. Yes, I think it does. This kind of sentiment is more often than not expressed by those who haven't entered the fray or gone to battle for anything they believe (arm chair citizens) in or those who got their face punched in and promptly quit (quitters.) I understand it is difficult for most people to muster the will to begin or remain engaged. When you don't have deep pockets your wins are hard won. You find yourself doing un-polite things like sitting-in at a federal reserve bank, crashing the phone system at city hall or encamped in a Congressman's district office till he comes off the floor and promises to change his vote with 2 or 3 hundred of your closest friends. It takes time, committment and organization. Not for the lazy, cynical or faint of heart. Politics is a dirty, undignified, bloody business. You have to be ready to kill or be killed and sleep with the devil when necessary (and try not to puke when you look at yourself in the mirror in the morning.) War has been described as the "continuation of politics by other means." I tend to look at it the other way around. You pick the battles you can win and go at it like it's war.

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