[lbo-talk] Re: consensus-direct-representative democracy etc

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>At 2:51 PM -0700 6/2/03, Gar Lipow wrote:
>>I don't think it was produced democratically, no. But we've got to 
>>deal with the world that we inherited, and on many many issues, 
>>Americans hold fairly barbaric views.
>
>The question is: Do the majority of Americans hold more barbaric 
>views than are likely to be carried out?

Certainly not.  And even _if_ they had more barbaric views than the 
power elite's, they wouldn't be motivated enough to carry them out.
-- 
Yoshie

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