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Article #161Re: wishful thinking
From: Ron C Ward
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 00:00
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Derek Brown (cq884@torfree.net) wrote: : THE only thing the politician would need to say in et's campaign : speeches would be, : HOW DO YOU WANT ME TO VOTE? MAJORITY RULES! Lovely! So the English majority would decide policies for the French minority; a Catholic majority could determine legal/moral issues for other religions; a majority of "straight" voters would determine what rights a gay minority is entitled to etc... Since the majority is not always right, I don't think this would be much of an improvement. Besides, most voters don't acquaint themselves enough with the issues to make an intelligent decision. (Yes, I'm including myself there). Are you sure you're not a member of the Reform party? RON
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10643c,f80e4729ffdbf6f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: feaac,f80e4729ffdbf6f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfeaac,public X-Google-Thread: 114977,f80e4729ffdbf6f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid114977,public X-Google-Thread: 103731,f80e4729ffdbf6f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103731,public From: bs985@torfree.net (Ron C Ward) Subject: Re: wishful thinking Date: 1997/04/21 Message-ID: <E901tz.Jxw.0.queen@torfree.net> X-Deja-AN: 236395223 References: <E8y1s7.H3o.0.queen@torfree.net> Followup-To: torfree.general Organization: Toronto Free-Net Newsgroups: torfree.general,tor.news,tor.general,can.consumers