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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (3709)	9/20/2003 11:40:30 AM
From: Coz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

I frequently read Iqbal Latif's thread (http://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=14747) Just because I find it interesting what a sane, mild mannered believer in neoconism posts there. None of the hate and name calling, he mostly posts reports he has read that in some way were meaningful to him. The interesting thing to me is the occasionally liberally biased article he seems agreed enough upon to post like this one "http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=19324898" I see him posting something that really tries to be reasonable in its rhetoric, and it gives me hope that the two major parties can become reasonable towards each other and just may start taking into account their constituents needs and hopes over those of their benefactors. Perhaps I have not yet read enough history to make a statement like this, but it has occurred to me that most societies that place the needs of the political benefactors over the needs of the workers and wage earners eventually fall into some sort of anarchy. The ideal of that always is to create a paradise land for those who actually do the work, but it seems like these movements always become eroded by influential people from within who lose interest in altruism feigns to their own personal interests. It is difficult to resist the kind of temptations one faces when suddenly thrust into power and the sycophantic thralls attracted to the flame of power. First revolutions seem always to be followed by second revolutions before vox populi gains any respect. There just seems no need to go down this path in America. If we could all start truly listening to each other instead of listen for what a moron the other guy is in order to attack him, we could build a moderate state where peoples' opinion and their vote mattered--where politicians whould seek out the soul of their constituency instead trying to scare them to death and whip them up into a blind xenophobic rage to extract their freedoms while in an altered state of mind. What in the hail kind of world is this our collective nation is building for us here? --Cozzz