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To: tejek who wrote (168387)	4/23/2003 6:32:46 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577206

When one leading senator and several lesser politicians suggest... You will always find prominent people hinting, suggesting, or even out right saying very negative things, but no one with any political power is even suggesting the idea of new laws imposing segregation. Anyone who does commits political suicide and even someone who makes a comment that could be considered possibly racist gets burned by the suggestion. If you don't believe in equal rights of all people in this country, then you don't believe in the democratic processes 1 - That is not strictly speaking true. You can believe in a democracy and believe that if the democracy chooses to have different rights for different people that it is ok. That would be and unfair and bigoted and all around wrong way to think but it is not a logical contradiction. 2 - Being bigoted does not equal not believing in the equal rights for all people. You can hate or dislike or not respect a race or religion or other group and still think they should have equal rights. It certainly doesn't mean being like Hitler. 3 - Making a comment that could be interpreted as bigoted, or failing to support a policy pushed by the NAACP (or supporting a policy condemned by them) doesn't mean you are bigoted. 4 - You didn't address the "its not only Republicans". 5 - There are bigoted people in both parties but they have no real power to push a bigoted agenda. The hint of trying causes a negative reaction and actually trying would destroy them as a politician. Every attempt short of using the law has been made to silence critics of the president. Not really, that's an exaggeration. And to the extent that anything like this has happened it has happened under just about every administration in modern times. You make a criticism and you have to deal both with people who think the criticism is wrong and unfair and of course those who counterattack just for partisan political reasons. Both parties (and other political groups and organizations) have their attack dogs. One element in and of itself may not be dangerous.....its when they are taken en toto, that there may be a problem. There are frequently problems. Always have been. Again that doesn't support the claim that democracy is being subverted. When anti war rhetoric was at its peak, suddenly the status was elevated. When the war was about to happen suddenly it was elevated. Besides I think at this point elevating the status is barely noticed and has little political impact. Tim