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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

That you for posting this.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people believe they have no
responsibility for the actions of their government.  They just abdicate
all responsibility because they didn't vote for person X and think that
absolves them of any moral or social obligation.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:internetworkers-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca O'Connell
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 5:02 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Bush the monster?
> 
> But the idea behind a representative democracy is that we elect
> representatives and they act on our behalf. "We" hired "them" (or
hired
> the
> people who hired "them") and if "we" don¹t approve of what "they" do
then
> we
> have a civic duty to make our opinions known, to vote for better
> candidates,
> and, if necessary, to encouraging better people to run. It seems very
> defeatist to me to just say "oh, that's them, that doesn't involve
me". I
> understand that the richest 1% have a lot of resources that they can
use
> to
> make things go their way and that our government isn't always "of the
> people, for the people, and by the people" but that's what its
supposed to
> be and that's what we should be working toward.
> 
> On 9/19/03 4:22 PM, "zman" <zman AT gibbon.kungfumonkey.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 brunkb AT ils.unc.edu wrote:
> >>> Bush is a monster
> >> The monster is in all of us.  I see it in all your posts.  Who is
this
> "we"
> >> you all talk about?  I am playing no part in the invasion of other
> >> countries, and I take offense to being lumped in with the war party
and
> all
> >> that it stands for.  Until "we the people" can understand the our
> federal
> >> government is not "we", "we" aren't going to get very far.
Whenever I
> talk
> >> about this stuff now, I make a conscious effort to say "the
government"
> and
> >> not "we" because it is obvious to me that they aren't one and the
same.
> >> "They" talk about trillions and billions, while "I" struggle to not
> become
> >> homeless.
> >
> > I agree it is not "us" but "them" doing this.
> 
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