Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ucbvax!jordan From: jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame Subject: Re: America-bashing Message-ID: <8689@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 11:05:58 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8689 Posted: Tue Jul 2 11:05:58 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 20:01:00 EDT References: <3140@drutx.UUCP> <847@teddy.UUCP> Reply-To: jordan@ucbvax.UUCP (Jordan Hayes) Followup-To: net.flame Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 18 Keywords: democracy??! Xref: watmath net.politics:9703 net.flame:10937 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! ------------ Jordan Hayes jordan@ucb-vax.BERKELEY.EDU UC Berkeley ucbvax!jordan +1 (415) 835-8767 37' 52.29" N 122' 15.41" W