theseus51
12-17-2007, 05:38 PM
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16816194
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When the majority gets the vote you must hand over power to them. This voluntary relinquishment of power, this saying, if you get more votes than I do, I will hand over power to you. Which seems to us the essence of Democracy, how could it work otherwise?, just seems like insanity and madness to a great many people in a still tribal world. Why would you hand over power to your major enemies, to these incompetents, these villains. Listen to the rhetoric of campaigns, most people would think it's criminal malfeasance to let these people rule, and yet we do it. We take it for granted.
Excerpt:
When the majority gets the vote you must hand over power to them. This voluntary relinquishment of power, this saying, if you get more votes than I do, I will hand over power to you. Which seems to us the essence of Democracy, how could it work otherwise?, just seems like insanity and madness to a great many people in a still tribal world. Why would you hand over power to your major enemies, to these incompetents, these villains. Listen to the rhetoric of campaigns, most people would think it's criminal malfeasance to let these people rule, and yet we do it. We take it for granted.