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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: Explorations of "social-interest": Democracy-bashing:Re to JoSH
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Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 03:42:00 EDT
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>/* baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) /  2:19 am  Jun 26, 1985 */

>No, Tim, it is only *JoSH's* abhorrence of democracy that is explicit here.
>Implicit is the notion that contempt for democracy is not incompatible
>with contempt for government in general - hardly surprising.  But it is 
>wrong to tar "most" libertarians with JoSH's brush.  I hope.

The point is not that Libertarians prefer other forms of choosing government
than democracy  --  they don't.  Libertarians just want to limit the scope
of government.  In a country which chooses its government democratically
this necessarily limits the scope of democracy.

						Mike Sykora