From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 12:03:36 MDT
Rafal asks
> ### You are not suggesting that the majority is always right, are you?
By no means. Here in America, I find them to be in error in
just about every other election year! ;-)
Joking aside, and trying to look at it from an objective historical
perspective, we find that although indeed they err, the representatives
elected by the majority err less over the long run than do the those
exercising power in other forms of government. At least some *class*
of citizens should elect officials, that much seems to be clear.
But more germane is, where do we go from here? Back tracking to
despotic forms of government, or various kinds of oligarchy,
seems sure to retard progress. (Recall Winston Churchill's
famous dictum about all this.)
Lee
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