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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (2628)	8/26/2003 2:46:18 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7841

Two-party systems are a statistical game (of redistricting) for the big-wigs. However, it is based on the principle that neither democracy nor information is not for the masses, just polls and pavlovian manipulation. That is obviously one of safest ways to run a people. Just to make you happy, another CSPAN link, on how California shows the way for the rest of USA, although it looks to be the way USA should not take. Discussion on California as a Model for Democracy The Calif. Inst. for Federal Policy Research hosts "American Democracy's Uncertain Future: And Is California an Unsettling Vision of Our American Democracy?" 8/21/2003: WASHINGTON, DC: 1 hr. 40 min. video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/project/cal/cal082103_california.rm some keywords maybe mis(dis)-tempered as well as the perfect ban on "proportional representation". (OK, it was banned in UK too until appr 1995, but the keywords "voter-apathy" broke the ban)