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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (603147)	8/12/2004 4:33:22 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

De Toqueville has a theory, already in the 1830s, for why great men rarely come to the fore in a developed democracy. In the beginning, for example, during the Revolution, great things are afoot, and people look for leadership,and give the exceptional individual room to make his mark. In a developed democracy, politics becomes routine, and men of distinction are unwilling to submit themselves to the indignities of campaigning, or to the elaborate mechanism that has to be gone through to get anything done. Instead, they seek distinction in businesses under their control, or in literature and the arts.