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To: LindyBill who wrote (55156)	7/20/2004 8:14:27 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 793926

July 13, 2004 Why the Republic probably isn't in grave danger Reflecting on John Perry Barlow's very eloquent warning about the danger to the Republic inherent in a second Bush term (see previous post), Jordan Peterson of the University of Toronto offered a hopeful and (I think) largely accurate contrary view. The following is a paraphrase, but the sense is largely unchanged: The reason that the American Revolution created a republic that has done so well for so long, while the French and Russian revolutions degenerated so quickly into tyranny, was that the American Framers didn't try to create a government capable of doing great good in the hands of brilliant and well-intentioned people. Instead, they tried to create a government that couldn't do too much to ruin the country in the hands of a bunch of corrupt morons. And they did a pretty good job of it. Posted by Mark Kleiman at 12:41 AM \| TrackBack (0) \| \| markarkleiman.com

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