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From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Down with Democracy!
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Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 22:02:06 EST
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Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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It's good to see some agreement between the socialists and the libertarians
on the list.  We both dislike democracy.

Socialists don't want democracy because they know that if the majority
really supported any given program, socialist laws would not be necessary
-- the majority would just go ahead and support it.  Socialists realize that
only in a government controlled by minorities and special interests does
state control of the means of production make any sense.


Libertarians dislike democracy because they believe that in most cases,
99% of the population does not have the right to dictate the free,
private behavior of a single individual.  For example, a libertarian
believes that it isn't right to steal, no matter how many people want to
do it.

A socialist believes that it is right to steal no matter how many people
don't want it to happen.


There are two alternatives to democracy

Some day I will have to write a book about the alternative to democracy
I have devised.  We all know about the alternative to democracy that makes
socialism function.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473