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>>>Dmitry, politicians do not listen. They do only what is necessary to keep themselves in power. I will not vote because I do not believe it will help in any way. Government *should* act in the interest of the country and people they represent regardless if that population votes or not. But instead they do whatever they want to do and voting is a way to appease the "sporting" masses on the one hand and to decide which bunch of liars we get on the other :)
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>>Jos, I guess we will have to agree to disagree <g>.
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>OK.
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>Do you think the masses have any clue on how to evaluate the complex socio-economic-political arguments that policiticans reduce to sound-bites to make informed voting decisions?
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You just expressed a very typical view of liberals: people are "masses" and don't know sh*t. We, the smart inteligentcia will
help them decide on what is good for them. I despise that view at people.
To answer your question, Yes, I believe people understand very well what is going on. Maybe even better than you and I.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
