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From: jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame
Subject: Re: America-bashing
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 11:05:58 EDT
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In article <847@teddy.UUCP> lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney) writes:

>Hmm.  A little slip there I see.  Are you saying that the average 
>American has no knowledge or influence on American foreign policy?
>
>And this is a democracy?

Uh, last time I checked, this was a democratic republic, not
a democracy. Get it straight. We gave up our right to this type of
influence when we began to vote... Our only influence is at the
polls. The power lies with those whom we give it to (at least in theory...)

Get your political systems straight!

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