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In article <klg.718992140@statsci> klg@statsci.com (Kevin L. Gross) writes:

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>Does anyone recall the Nixon era when government and big business worked
>hand-in-hand to destroy this country's ecology, civil-rights and
>individualism? 

I missed that era.  Was this the same Nixon that enacted wage and
price controls?  Took the dollar off the gold standard?  Championed
giving 18-year-olds the vote?  Underwrote a drug study whose findings
were that marijuana should be legalized?  No, the Nixon you mention
sounds more conservative than that...

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>The next president will be able to choose three Supreme Court Justices. Do
>we want a court packed to the hilt by Reabush? And Perot's no better, he
>seems to have the compassion of a pit-bull. 

Now, this is a legitimate argument for voting for Clinton.  This
country would do pretty well if it had conservative lawmakers and
a liberal court.  Then the lawmakers would only pass those laws
that were absolutely necessary, and the court would knock them all
down for impinging on people's rights.  The opposite scenario would
indeed be dire - a liberal congress passing laws faster than they
could be read into the record, and a conservative court upholding
everything on the doctrine of "good faith".

>                                            Do we really want a country
>that doesn't care?

I dunno.

>                      Voting for Clinton would at least let the pendulum
>swing back the other way and provide the breathing room our country needs
>to get out from under the totalitarian regime that is now in power. Who
>needs a healthy economy if everyone is in jail? Can you say 1984?

Well, neighbor, (another Rogersism) 1984 was about a Socialist dystopia.
Much easier to achieve when the Presidency and the Congress are
controlled by the same party.  Personally, I think the Democrats are
just as intent as the Republicans on making just about every human
activity compulsory or unlawful.  They just part company on which
should be which.

(Sprinkle all my  above commentary lightly with smileys and
deposit in /dev/null)


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