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To: Sam who wrote (126735)	3/21/2004 3:10:18 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That is why most educated people until the 19th century (including many and perhaps even most of the people we call "founding fathers) were not democrats, did not think of "democracy" and "good government" as synonymous, as most of us today somewhat mindlessly do. I think you've got their reasons confused. Their fear was as much the democratic nature of demcracies (think: mob rule) as the fear that they might tip into tyrannies. Neither democracies nor oligarchies come with natural immunity from tyrants. Anyhow, that is neither here nor there to the main point, which is, that America is not a fascist dictatorship and doesn't even remotely resemble one. If you want to argue that America is sliding into plutocracy, be my guest; but that still would be nothing like a fascist police state. Saddam's Iraq, on the other hand, was a fascist police state.