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Democracy w/o principle is called 'rule of the mob.' Why don't you go
read what our founders thought of democracy before the term was put an a
pedestal and idolized by modern political rhetoric. Democracy can be
very unamerican, yes.

Capitalism can be evil as well. You cannot idealize the process and
throw out the principles, it doesn't work. Use of force (government or
otherwise) to achieve an advantage that could not be realized on the
free market is corrupt. Government should prevent the use of such force
but instead is the institutionalized facilitator of it. This empowers
special business interests at the expense of the entrepreneur, at the
expense of the consumer public, at the expense of market efficiency. It
is also a self-perpetuating delusion, as this market corruption as seen
as a motivation for more interference which in turn facilitates more
corruption.

A perfect example of this was Mercantilism, whose corrupt policies where
the single largest contributing factor to the American revolution. Adam
Smith wrote a great book attacking Mercantilism and its adverse effect
on England, unfortunately he died before completing his book describing
a political system that would prevent it.

When I refer to Capitalism however I mean Laissez Faire Capitalism,
which incorporates both process and principle.

	Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: James Love [mailto:love@cptech.org]

How do you feel about democracy in general?  Is that "unamerican" too?