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To: LindyBill who wrote (62488)	12/20/2002 6:34:40 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Again, we look at the glass from a different perspective. I see "Campaign Finance" as an attempt by the successful to ward off "Mob Rule." You see it as an impediment to implementation of a "Progressive" Government. Well, not quite. My point is that the present way we finance campaigns gives big money contributors much too large a role in selecting for almost any electoral office. If that did not happen, the politics might get worse from my point of view. I genuinely don't know. I would hope not. But I don't argue for the change because it would necessarily produce better political outcomes for me. As for "culture" arguments, I'm not opposed, it's just that they are over simplified, generally. They tend to aggregate prematurely, say into an Asian culture, an Arab culture, a Latin American culture; work off a dependent variable that is simplified into a dichotomy--failed and successful economies; and ignore the political, economic, and social substratums as well as the respective and different histories. So "culture" arguments are difficult ones to handle.