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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (3120)	10/18/2000 8:45:35 PM
From: md1derful	Respond to of 10042

"but I submit that it is not idiotic." Okay, we are certainly entitled to our opinions..have a nice evening doc

To: TimF who wrote (3120)	10/18/2000 8:51:20 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 10042

Tim, That's the really bizarre part of being in a democracy (okay, representative republic). The really absurd opinions that the ill-informed (on both sides) hold so tightly are buffered by an elected oligarchy. The ill-informed get votes just like everyone else's, but only an elected elite actually vote on the executive, and textual body and implementation of law. Every few years there is an important election and complex issues that defy clear philosophical definition get summarized into catchy phrases. It is really a miracle that system works at all in a society without universal literacy. I think that a country the size and complexity of the US is probably just too big to govern effectively. The second miracle is that even though most people are blind to the complexity (and corruption of the system), they trust that two entrenched teams of oligarchists can represent their dearest beliefs faithfully and defend either of these camps like a bunch of automatons, repeating phrases from political ads like robots. This is not aimed at anyone here in particular, just a reminder that this thread was about moderation. The politics of government is the long term average of relatively incompatible viewpoints, headed by the least offensive candidate (IMO that the choice we're offered). Elections are used as tug-of-wars where we all pile on and pull. Anyone else who has ever worked in a large organization must be equally amazed that this system can even work at all.