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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (6657)	5/27/2004 9:38:52 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Rock > The problem with America is that for far too long, we've focused our energy outwards, and neglected domestic priorities. Or perhaps it's been impossible to reconcile the domestic priorities, particularly since people have strong and opposing views on many issues. In the circumstances, it is often easier to create diversions or focus attention elsewhere. In a similar discussion, previously, I was referred to this paper on constitutional development by Polybius, in ancient Rome, which I felt had excellent insights, particularly the fact that no system is static and the best system is one where power is diffused. What seems to be happening in the US is that power is being concentrated and the "people" are increasingly being excluded. This is part of the process which Polybius mentions. sms.org >>monarchy inevitably degrades into tyranny. Tyranny is then replaced by aristocracy, which in turn degrades into oligarchy. Oligarchy then is overthrown by democracy, which ultimately falls into its own corresponding distortion, mob-rule. .. the cycle then starts up again since anarchy inevitably creates a void that some new demagogue will fill.<<