[lbo-talk] Tim Robbins speech at National Press Club--quite good

[Dennis Perrin]

> But the Consitution is also deeply conservative in many ways - the
> whole structure of the three branches is designed to dilute direct
> popular influence, and even within the legislative branch, the Senate
> serves that role.
>
> Doug

To be sure. No one document, esp one hundreds of years old, answers
everything. (I lean much more to Paine and to a degree Jefferson than I do,
say, Madison, who detested popular and/or direct democracy.) But in these
days of hyper-patriotism, those of us with access to microphones and ears
should point to the better aspects of the above documents.

DP