Re: Will Negress Judge back Jew 's complaint?

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From: jim patterson
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:00

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On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:01:57 -0600, Carol Lee Smith <human@csd.uwm.edu>
wrote:

> 2. Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote but won
>based on some old colonial holdover (electoral college) from the nation's
> pre-democracy past.

Imagine if you had the guts to recognize the truth in the next
sentences:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form
of government. It can exist only until the voters discover they can
vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate
promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result
that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to
be followed by a dictatorship."  -- Alexander Tyler

Imagine that despite your emotion charged implications, that the
backbone of this nation still believed in the constitution that has
been the support of this republic for over 200 years and still is.  
Imagine that.

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Subject: Re: Will Negress Judge back Jew 's complaint?
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