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To: Joe S Pack who wrote (50472)	5/25/2004 11:43:31 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<<Democracy in not set in stone and it has to evolve as per people demand.>> People demand? It works in Scandinavian countries and Switzerland where the people are fat and satisfied. If this was true for the people of poor countries, then the people of all those poor countries could have demanded long time ago change. But I look around and I don't see them with a way of making any demand. <<Communism and other forms of totalitarian systems are like a heart attack whereas democracy as practiced now in most parts of the world is like a slow spreading cancer. In several countries democracy is slowly becoming aristocracy and/or autocracy.>> And that's the damage only to the rich countries. You haven't touched the damage democracy does to poor countries. <<For example, US had one of the best constitutions but it is being trampled left and right by the power hungry elites.>> The constitution has survived when the going was good, when the US was getting rich and stronger. It needs a test during the times when the going is not good. Like now when the US is returning to its natural size. Then and only then we will know if it is one of the best. But you already say it is being high jacked by the power hungry elites. Like everywhere else, I would say.