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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (12627)	4/29/2001 8:53:35 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Here's the context of that: Message 15729809 X and I later were in agreement that democracies can only act against the wishes of the governed for fairly brief periods; dictatorships (as X indicated) can do so for much longer, possibly until they are overthrown. Actually, on a limited number of points even a good democratic government can do so for long periods. This comes about because people don't get to select each point individually. They must select a whole group represented by a party or a candidate, some of which they like and some of which they don't.