On May 7, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
> I doubt Carrol and Joanna's message about "elections being a bad
> way to run
> a society" would make much headway with American and other working
> people
> who value, often passionately, the right to elect their
> representatives,
> much less with those peoples who still lack the right to do so.
How about those first elections in South Africa, in which people waited in line for hours on end to vote?
Of course, an idea of democracy that reduces to nothing but elections is debased. But typically Carrol got carried away with his fatalistic pronouncement.
Doug