Who Cares

When the politicians speak they always make statements which imply that they're
speaking to, and being heard by,  the whole nation.   I just read a notice that
less than 40% of eligible voters went to the polls.   Since the Republicans are
still in the majority, this means that less than one quarter of the voting
population supports Clinton as President.   And only slightly more than one
quarter support Republicans.   This would be meaningful to me, if I was making
policy:  what are all those other people doing?

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Blanc

At 12:22 AM -0500 11/5/98, Blanc wrote:
> When the politicians speak they always make statements which imply that
>they're
>speaking to, and being heard by,  the whole nation.   I just read a notice
>that
>less than 40% of eligible voters went to the polls.   Since the
>Republicans are
>still in the majority, this means that less than one quarter of the voting
>population supports Clinton as President.   And only slightly more than one
>quarter support Republicans.   This would be meaningful to me, if I was making
>policy:  what are all those other people doing?

	The fact that it is meaningful to you means you will never (as long
as it is meaningful to you) get anywhere as a politician, as you still
actively beleive that a politican is there to do the will of the people.

	This can be demonstrated to be a false assumption.
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jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a
gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather nave, and certainly
unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
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