[Grovenet] Exporting Democracy?

[Steven]

My personal experience is that I don't care because they don't seem to 
listen. We have a republic/democracy, but it seems quite feudal these 
days. What we call our system vs what it really is.
Here in Oregon, we had to vote twice for assisted suicide. We've had 
Portland's theocracy ramrod gay marriage. Now we voted that down only to 
be revisited. We continually rail against sales tax despite the obvious 
potential, basically because we can't trust our government to cut taxes 
somewhere else as a compensation. In Forest Grove they wanted to tax 
some businesses so that other businesses downtown could have thousand 
dollar park benches. Pacific U gets their way with local government, yet 
no one can explain why.
Is that a democracy? I personally don't think so. If it is, then I'm 
against democracy. I can't speak for a bunch of Egyptians. I can't even 
walk like one.

Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Might be, Steven! 
>
> But isn't the point that if people don't care about government and isolate
> themselves from it, they probably don't care what sort of government they
> are isolating themselves from?
>
> Ron D'Eau Claire 
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com] On
> Behalf Of Steven
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:18 AM
> To: Forest Grove local interests list
> Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Exporting Democracy?
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>
> It seems that people want to separate themselves from others, rather 
> than be a 'melting pot'. As seen in Kurdistan or Northern Idaho. I would
> imagine that the people who live in these communities would be 
> happy with democracy, just not big government.
>
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