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From: hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad)
Subject: Re: talk & travel
In-Reply-To: livesey@solntze.engr.sgi.com's message of 21 Feb 1995 04:22:39 GMT
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In article <3ibpqf$fac@fido.asd.sgi.com> livesey@solntze.engr.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:

   And in a democracy, none of this matters.    If people vote
   in topics about which they have not informed themselves to 
   the satisfaction of Mr Hinsen, too bad.   If they don't pay

You missed the point. People don't vote on topics, but for
political parties. They do not have a detailed control over
individual decisions (in most countries at least).

   They are *still* the voters, and they still make the decisions.
   That's what democracy is about; not satisfying some expert, but
   exercising sovereignty.

Most decisions are made by governments, or at best by parliaments.

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