election demographics

[Brad DeLong]

>  >>You don't think that democracy is a good thing?
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>Brad DeLong
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>Democracy as a Platonic Idea or actually existing democracy?
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>Voting is merely the entrance to the house of democracy. Folks on this list
>are far more interested in moving the furniture around so that more people
>feel like entering. Hell some even want to build a differnt kind of house so
>that voting, as the entrance, takes on a totally different kind of meaning.
>And until there's some serious moving of furniture, don't expect an increase
>in voters in the US; something I do not feel is a tragedy given the current
>historico-ecological-technological-economic morass we're in.
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>Ian

Think for a moment about who doesn't vote. Think for a moment about 
in whose interest it is that so many people abstain. Think about 
whose interest it is to denigrate pleas for higher participation as 
"elementary school civics."

Brad DeLong