Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site teddy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!teddy!lkk From: lkk@teddy.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: America-bashing Message-ID: <861@teddy.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 14:22:22 EDT Article-I.D.: teddy.861 Posted: Tue Jul 2 14:22:22 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 04:17:38 EDT References: <3140@drutx.UUCP> <847@teddy.UUCP> <8689@ucbvax.ARPA> Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 42 Keywords: democracy??! Summary: In article <8689@ucbvax.ARPA> jordan@ucbvax.UUCP (Jordan Hayes) writes: >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. YAWN... I'm glad to see you learned you high school civics lessons well. You can call our political system what you want, the point remains the same. The power of the government of the United States is vested (through various levels of indirection) in the PEOPLE. Yet in reality, the PEOPLE have little knowledge of or control over the foreign policy of this country. > We gave up our right to this type of >influence when we began to vote... Our only influence is at the >polls. Oh, you mean before we began to vote we DID have it??? >The power lies with those whom we give it to (at least in theory...) The power lies with those who have had it all along, the rich and influential (a few of which happen to be politictians). > >Get your political systems straight! Yes sir!!!! -- Sport Death, Larry Kolodney (USENET) ...decvax!genrad!teddy!lkk (INTERNET) lkk@mit-mc