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mgr Donating Member (616 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 01:23 PM
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42. Apology for the 'rhetoric' slam, still disagree.
Having looked at this post, I would agree that some of these reforms would be nice, but on the whole would produce a poorly functioning government, that may be destabilized by any crisis. I am not all that convinced that reforming the constitution from representational to direct democracy is an answer.

The concerns that probably divide you and I is that I am probably an 'old school' liberal, I still believe that it is the Democratic Party's responsibility to complete the reforms it has already undertaken ala LBJ, and not those tantamount to to what I consider political suicide, since in our democracy, we are for all intents and purposes, a coalition party.

The reforms or principles you propose might better be applied within the Party, rather than the government as a whole. I do not even begin to think that the Party is the champion of Civil Rights that it once was.

I think the one Quaker principle you could add would be government by a consensus greater than 50% assent.

Mike
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