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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (164888)6/29/2005 5:04:32 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
When one looks at the all-prevailing schizophrenia of democratic societies, the lies that have to be told for vote-catching purposes, the silence about major issues, the distortions of the press, it is tempting to believe that in totalitarian countries there is less humbug, more facing of the facts. There, at least, the ruling groups are not dependent on popular favour and can utter the truth crudely and brutally. Goering could say ‘Guns before butter’, while his democratic opposite numbers had to wrap the same sentiment up in hundreds of hypocritical words.

This part strikes me as the kind of irrational self hatred that is popular in democracies. Democracies are hardly perfect, as we've seen with the election and re election of Shrub, but how about a reality check ?

Silicon Investor wouldn't even exist under totalitarian societies. There wouldn't ever have been a "Watergate" bringing down a corrupt president if the US was really a totalitarian society. Naturally, there wouldn't have been a failed social experiment like the Prohibition either, one could multiply infinitely the examples of how imperfect democratic societies are at times.

The opinion polls of Shrub will continue to drop since one can't fool everyone all the time. It's just too bad that he and his cronies have already been able to cause so much damage.
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