Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!elf From: elf@utcsrgv.UUCP (Eugene Fiume) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: American view Message-ID: <3576@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 11:28:40 EST Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.3576 Posted: Wed Mar 21 11:28:40 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 11:53:40 EST References: <3568@utcsrgv.UUCP>, <609@hcr.UUCP> Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 17 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