[lbo-talk] Ralph on the recall

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Tue Aug 12 14:36:59 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad DeLong" <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>


> >"It is the country that desperately needs leaders that the strong
democrat
> >worries over and pities...On its face, leadership is opposed to
> >participatory self-government; it acts in place of or to some degree
> >encroaches on the autonomy of individual actors...Complete
self-government
> >by an active citizenry would leave no room for leaders or followers.
> >[Benjamin Barber]
>
> Therefore we ought to elect an actor so that we can have an
> incompetent governor?
>
> Didn't somebody once call this kind of thinking "an infantile
> disorder"? Vladimir Ilyich was many things, but stupid was not one of
> them.
>
>
>
> Brad "Lenin" DeLong

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Who taught you inductive logic? What the frick does VIL have to do with CA?

You really do mainfest the behavior of a four year old sometimes.

Sheeeeeesh,

Ian



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