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13/05/2004 16:23:38
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>>>This is only important because you described a "control" loop to prove that a voting public has no control over its representatives. This is an extreme over simplification.
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>>I would say that "representatives have more control on the public" is more likely than otherwise.
>>:)
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>Which is prefectly consistent with what I said with "Often in America the people who vote do not excersize the power they have." Glad you agree.

Not exactly. :) The power of "representatives" always overwhelms the power of voters. That's why they are "in power". :) But it they abuse the power too much it may end up like in Russia in 1917. But we don't want to go there. :)
Nick Neklioudov
Universal Thread Consultant
3 times Microsoft MVP - Visual FoxPro

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work." - Thomas Edison
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