> That's not the problem - it's that whole areas of policy - economic and
> foreign, to take two - are written out of political discourse and
> reserved for experts. No one doubts that it requires experts to handle
> the nuts & bolts, but the big questions are supposed to be decided
> democratically and they're not.
Whaddiya mean they're not? First you put a lot of disinformation out to make it look like the guy with the mustache always shooting off a shotgun is an immanent threat to the U.S. of A.; the polls show the majority of the public believes you; you have the war; and after the war the polls still show the majority think it was right. What could be more democratic than that?
Almost like Wag the Dog, except that this time there was a real war.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org ________________________________ How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. -- Nietzsche