36% against ground-troops invasion

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Aug 13 10:36:26 PDT 2002


Carl Remick wrote:
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> A 57% majority is enough to overwhelm me at least. This particular actually
> existing democracy really stinks.

If you actually hope for any change (as opposed to merely feeling superior to those fools) you (a) have to respect that 57% and (b) realize that 36% passive opposition is plenty if one can only recruit around 5%+ ACTIVE opposition.

It will never get any better, so sneering at that 57% is tantamount to turning the whole future of the world over to the capitalist classes of the leading nations.

Carrol



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