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To: Ahda who wrote (19366)	10/18/2003 4:46:11 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81943

Darleen >The responsibility can be laid on the US political system and the responsibility of the US political system can be laid on the people of the US. Yes and no. The political system is a good one, as good as there could have been. A potential weakness was, unfortunately, that it was based on a prayer --- the Declaration of Independence --- rather than a law. To function as it was intended to do depended on trust and faith in one's fellow man and not on his coercion. The Bill of Rights, which came about subsequently, was intended to be that missing law. However, as many feared would happen, happened and, slowly, bit by bit, the democratic process was undermined and the peoples' representatives influenced and manipulated until, now, government has become the lackey of big business and special interest groups (lobbies) who operate in their own self-interest, and who use the population as a whole as a milking-cow or an obedient slave, all the while propagandizing it about the virtues of the freedom and democracy inherent in the American system. > Right now so many are so dissatisfied that you have right wings forming from left quarters all over the place. That's not the solution --- that's the problem. If bullies can go around smashing up the place, intimidating whomever they please and taking what they want, our so-called civilization will return to the Rule of the Jungle. Society cannot exist, let alone make progress, unless its weaker members are protected. In fact, that's what democracy is supposed to be all about.