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To: RMF who wrote (200021)	8/29/2006 10:04:40 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Democracy doesn't automatically make people more receptive to new ideas. No it doesn't. But it's more likely to open up people's minds to new ideas than a totalitarian government, now isn't it? YOU'RE the one creating "hypothetical scenarios" in which a standardized version of democracy fits all cultures and peoples. (You're a lot like the idiot bush in that regard). Have you ever traveled overseas? And if so, in your journeys have you ever come across any person, or group, who actually wanted someone else to tell them how they should live? And I'm not talking about a "standardized version of democracy".. Obviously you're quite like Sly and Geode in your inability to read English. I stated there are certain conditions that almost all successful democracies share.. These include free press, monopoly on use of force, viable political alternatives that submit to the democratic process... Now if you want to go on the record as being an advocate of supporting and fostering dictatorships, and totalitarian government, that's your choice. I, for one, hope that this is a policy that is one day forever relegated to the ash-heap of history. You say that it's not "pragmatically possible" to advocate such freedoms in certain societies, whereas I'm saying that without pushing for such freedoms, the rights of the individual will always be subverted to the oppression of the powerful. If you believe that people AROUND THE WORLD have no instinctive desire to have a say in the way they live their lives, then it is you who are truly the idiot. Hawk