Newsgroups: ont.general
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Squeaky wheel (was Highway Driving Rules)
Message-ID: <1989May2.155757.3695@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8904061731.AA21685@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu> <400@hcr.UUCP> <89Apr26.134028edt.9320@ois.db.toronto.edu> <1673@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> <5997@cognos.UUCP> <1684@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: Tue, 2 May 89 15:57:57 GMT

In article <1684@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> kevin@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Wallace B. Wallace) writes:
>... the average
>Canadian/American/whatever is not qualified to choose who is the best
>candidate to represent them...

They also may not be interested, since it's obvious to most everyone that
(a) our two major parties are Tweedledum and Tweedledee, with no important
differences between them, and (b) most of the dealings an average citizen
has with the government are determined by the civil service, not by the
elected politicians, and election results seldom have much effect at
that level.
-- 
Mars in 1980s:  USSR, 2 tries, |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
2 failures; USA, 0 tries.      | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu