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From: elf@utcsrgv.UUCP (Eugene Fiume)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: American view
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Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 11:28:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 21 11:28:40 1984
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I'm not sure I want to get involved in this sort of discussion, because
it's somewhat pointless.  I don't know what is meant by a "welfare" state
vs. a "socialist" one, but it strikes me that intuitively they're not
co-extensive.  The fact that people of almost all political
persuasions this country believe in government-supported,
enlightened social programmes only serves to illustrate that the politics
here appear to have a left-of-centre bias, relative to the American system.
Now, you can quibble all you like about how pervasive this really is, but
it's likely that all you'd really be showing is that
rednecks exist everywhere and within every political party.
So it goes.

I also think an n>2 political party system is preferable, but that's another
matter altogether.

Eugene Fiume
U of Toronto