From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 01:33:06 +0800
To: <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Subject: Re: Who Cares
In-Reply-To: <000601be087d$5cda57e0$3b8195cf@blanc>
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At 12:22 AM -0500 11/5/98, Blanc wrote:
> When the politicians speak they always make statements which imply that
>they're
>speaking to, and being heard by,  the whole nation.   I just read a notice
>that
>less than 40% of eligible voters went to the polls.   Since the
>Republicans are
>still in the majority, this means that less than one quarter of the voting
>population supports Clinton as President.   And only slightly more than one
>quarter support Republicans.   This would be meaningful to me, if I was making
>policy:  what are all those other people doing?

	The fact that it is meaningful to you means you will never (as long
as it is meaningful to you) get anywhere as a politician, as you still
actively beleive that a politican is there to do the will of the people.

	This can be demonstrated to be a false assumption.
--
"To sum up: The entire structure of antitrust statutes in this country is a
jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a
gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather nave, and certainly
unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html

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