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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 6:29 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> > One of them will face a man who has
> > substantially different focus. Hence, a choice.
> On the surface he has a different focus, but only on the surface.    
> As to the
> essential things that affect the world we are soon to occupy, they  
> are nearly
> identical and all wrong-headed.

I am reminded of this:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only
exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from
the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes  
for the
candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the
result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always
followed by dictatorship."
- Alexander Fraser Tyler,'The Decline and Fall of the Athenian  
Republic'.