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To: JohnG who wrote (12844)	6/19/2001 11:28:43 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

What is the holy grail of Snap Track?? Not using the holy grail of GPS??? Ilmarinen US system is usually proud of at least making sure there are four safety locks against dictatorship, checks and balances, the balancing power of the house,senate,president, and if all go wrong, the supreme court. Taking turns is obviously the simple way, ensuring no one-party dictatorship except for brief moments. (interleaving elections, just like reed-salomon codes) But according to most informed,knowledgable,etc opinions the problem is that the voters get frustrated with all the smokes and mirrors keeping up that circus balance, or should one call it a balance of terror or ignorance?? Which brings the thoughts to the basic thing of local "more detailed" (multy party) democracy under union supervision, what EU is now trying to achieve. (basic problem is large numbers of voters and limited number of seats in a congress, US 250 million and maybe max of 500 seats, small nations like Finland 5 million and same max, ratio 500,000 down to 10,000 by elected candidate, cmpr russia or china, india, or the thought of a congress with 10,000 memembers) My point at two levels - don't be too blinded by "how great" the US system is - don't think it is a an easy,simple thing ---- to be more academically, political, democracy specfic, some think that the goal of this century will be a "center based, consensus system" based on three large parties, the center representing the "common sense", but not strong enough to become a defacto one-party system. To be mean and evil-sprited, the 2-party systems are a thing of the past. To be Nokia centered, the promise of Ollila to keep Nokia below 100,000 employee (cmpr 250 or 2,000 million employee) And those who will be around some 30-60 years from now will see how it turned out. -- Anyway, as I hope I've said before, anyone who can find a way out of the 2-party frustration of US (and UK,Canada) will surely get his picture in all future books on democracy. Main problem,risks, being the diversity of US, large population, danger of regional, "ethnic" conflicts, Alaska vs Florida (heating vs A/C costs), etc, break up of the union,etc,etc,etc..