RES: a trip to North Korea

[James Baird]

 The 
> U.S. "Founding Fathers" created a system designed to
> limit popular 
> sovereignty and insulate a propertied  ruling class
> against the 
> depredations of the mob - or, as Madison listed the
> dangers in 
> Federalist No. 10
> <http://www.mcs.net/~knautzr/fed/fed10.htm>: "a 
> rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for
> an equal 
> division of property, or for any other improper or
> wicked project."
> 


So, you can find absolutly nothing admirable about the
US system, even in the context of 18th-century
absolute monarchy?  I'm not a raving patriot, but this
seems a little harsh to me...

JIm Baird

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