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To: JohnM who wrote (27345)	8/29/2006 3:47:03 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541946

Generally reasonable access, combined with frequent rotation of elected officials would tend to minimize or eliminate serious moves in the direction of tyranny. It doesn't eliminate the possibility. There is no inherent contradiction between a highly illiberal government and a responsive democratic government, but the situation that you describe ("folk have reasonable access to correcting matters, in which the rotation through elected government offices is frequent and rapid") greatly reduces the risk. My point was merely that the high degree of responsiveness amounts to a highly democratic government, not necessarily a highly liberal one. (I mean liberal in the older meaning of being highly concerned with individual freedom, not "liberal Democrat". I could use libertarian but that might be a bit more extreme version of "classical liberal", and so wouldn't be exactly what I am talking about.)