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In Reply to: a brief note posted by dave c on March 30, 2007 at 14:03:45:

When I say it doesn't work, then I need to provide some explanation, or at least qualification . . . I recognize that these debates probably rage on the "outside" board, but I've only been there once.
Duilawyer pointed out that it can be hijacked. Well, if it is hijacked often and effectively, then how can it work? In between the hijackings? Then what is the dominant drift? Democracy between hijackings, or the hijackings themselves?
Yes, I've read a little Chomsky, but I'm certainly not a Chomsky-ite (I've read one of his books, and miscellaneous online posts). He was the one who first pointed out what I often felt--there is an enormous gap between public policy and public opinion.
Democracy might be a great theoretical system, but if it is working so well in the U.S., how do you explain the wide gulf between public policy and public opinion?
While examples are legion, the current situation in Iraq is a signal example. No reason to rehash how the administration fabricated information to justify the war. A hijacking?
And this is just the current situation. Same thing happened years ago in Vietnam--the boogeyman then was Communism, now it is militant Islam.
Is ". . . government the shadow cast on society by big business" (Dewey)?
Neither Republicans or Democrats represent the average U.S. citizen. Instead, they represent those with an agenda backed by money. Public policy is often determine by a select powerful small group, and not by "the rule of the people."

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Topic - The U.S. vs. John Lennon - Duilawyer 08:38:55 03/30/07 (12)

sorry, correction, the trash thinking is Scarborough's. - Duilawyer 09:28:33 03/31/07 (0)

Re: Rosy's right to say ... - halfnote 23:05:46 03/30/07 (2)

I do not even know WHAT Rosy said. That is the point/ - Duilawyer 09:22:29 03/31/07 (1)

Re: Naziism - halfnote 10:14:05 03/31/07 (0)

Re: The U.S. vs. John Lennon - townsend 13:26:45 03/30/07 (7)

VERY respectfully, slightly disagree. Democracy does work - Duilawyer 09:24:26 03/31/07 (0)

You can say that again! (nt - Eldragon 19:06:47 03/30/07 (0)

a brief note - dave c 14:03:45 03/30/07 (4)

Re: a brief note - townsend 15:03:36 03/31/07 (1)

I think the rule of the people but not rule by the people is the point - dave c 19:26:49 03/31/07 (0)

sounds fine to me. nt - Duilawyer 09:25:36 03/31/07 (0)

You naughty little Chomsky-ite. :-0 nt - tinear 23:06:16 03/30/07 (0)

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Re: a brief note - townsend 15:03:36 03/31/07 (1)

I think the rule of the people but not rule by the people is the point - dave c 19:26:49 03/31/07 (0)

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