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From: scw@cepu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: More on Participatory Democracy
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Date: Sat, 5-May-84 14:03:26 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  5 14:03:26 1984
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Another problem with PD is that the electorate is vulnerable to demagogery
RD is *RELATATIVELY* insensitive to this.  Even more so with staggered elections
(the Senate).  It provides some time for refelection and thought while also the
ability to throw the bastridiges out and bring in the new ones as required.
-- 
Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology)
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