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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Its early yet.
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Then you're not complaining about what's happening now, you're worrying that all this expressing of different opinons -- something we didn't have to worry about for several years -- might actually lead to something dangerous, like action.
I understand that it's frightening and exhilerating to have people in the nation's capitol disagreeing with each other, but many countries around the world have had experience with this sort of democracy, and it often works out OK.
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He's got lots of party pressures too.
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Who is in a position to pressure him to do anything?
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Under Bush, on some issue, perhaps so, which could be why it took four years and an election loss to force a serious reassessment. But in general, I disagree.
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I was speaking only of Iraq.
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Nope. A good number of the Founding Fathers thought that way, long before there was a Beltway. It is really more of an "elitist" view, which has considerable merit.
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It is an elitist view, though I was avoiding the word.
And let's just say that the Founding Fathers were well acquainted with the kind of bad public policy that results when the government does not need to answer to the people.
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Of course, but that doesn't mean a politician should necessarily do what the constituency wants.
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Nor did I say that it should. But that's not what we were discussing. And there's surely a middle ground with some accountability, but without constant referenda to decide every issue of the day.
