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To: flatsville who wrote (18474)	9/14/2000 5:16:57 PM
From: Horgad	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 436258

Bottom line is the system is not working. We get to choose between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum both of whom have already been chosen by big corporations and other special interest groups. I can guarantee you that what the big corps. and interest groups want from their candidates does not represent the wants of the majority of American people. Anybody ever heard of the hat dance done by race car drivers when they win? They stand there smiling while the hats of their sponsors are quickly placed on their heads for a quick photo and then immediately replaced with the next hat. I think politicians should be forced to where decals of their "sponsors" and to do the hat dance win they win. At least it would give the people a better idea of what they are voting for ie big oil, farming, banks, technology etc... Just punch the oil button when you go to the polls and all similarly sponsored candidates can be voted for at once....

To: flatsville who wrote (18474)	9/14/2000 5:26:32 PM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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?