Re: POLITICS: When democracy fails...

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Jul 01 2001 - 09:09:17 MDT


On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Tiberius Gracchus wrote:

> Whatever happened to the national referendum, anyway? I seem to recall
> some noise about that in the 70s....

Probably the only thing to get people excited enough for this is
a large tax burden. Since Federal taxes have been falling the
fervor over the issue has been declining.

> I am not sure the title of this post is accurate. May be it should be
> "POLITICS: when the peculiar form of Republicanism practiced in
> America fails..."

Yes, I would agree that would probably be more accurate.

Robert



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