From: raczka@HQ.Ileaf.COM (christopher raczka)
Subject: Political survey
Reply-To: raczka@HQ.Ileaf.COM (christopher raczka)
Organization: Interleaf, Inc.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 19:13:33 GMT


I recieved the following Survey via e-mail from Mr. Schneider @SUNY
I responded to him and I have no problem posting my responses
here, it will be noticed that I did not respond to a number of
questions

I trust a healthy discussion could grow out of Mr Schneiders
work

 Christopher
(Romans 12:2)

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> 1.  How would you describe your political views?  Would you say
> you are conservative, liberal, radical, or what?
>

	The current political parties find it to their advantage
	to classify and label people
        This is how they continue to exert some control and
	influence ... we must seek to end this

> 
> 2.  Do you identify with any political party?  Which one?  Would you
> say your identify strongly or weakly with this party?
> 
	I do not 'identify' myself with ANY political party
	in this country

	I am of the opinion that Americans need to reclaim the
	Government ... this calls for an entirely new political
	process, and from this should emerge a party that ALL
	Americans (African, European, Chinese, Japanese, etc)
	can indentify with and participate in

	America needs a spirtual renewal to deal with the REAL
	issues facing our country ... if these real issues do not
	get addressed there will be something on the order of another
	civil war


> 8.  Did you try to convince other people to vote in a particular way?

	I do not believe this should be part of the political process
	However, the existing political parties use the news media
	as message prostitutes

	Americans are mostly gullible and will base their
	opinions on what the hear on TV/radio or by what
	they read in Papers/Magazines

	This makes most Americans, in my opinion, very weak minded
	everyone wants a short-cut or an easy solution, nothing
	appears to be harder than to ask people to think

	The current political process, takes every advantage of this
	and as such, the problems that face our country never
	get addressed because the existing parties can set agendas
	and weak minded Americans settle for that because the news media
	reinforce the selected political messages
 
 	The news media is an active participant in the
	current political process that does not work, this process
	seeks to exploit the gullible by setting the agenda
	and telling people what the issues should be instead of
 	reporting what the issues really are

 
> 19.  How would you describe the poltical attitudes of the posters to
> these groups?  Did you agree with them?  Were they more liberal, or
> more conservative than you?  Was there a wide variety of viewpoints
> represented?
>
	I tend to try and not place labels on people, the current
	political structure wants Americans to seperate into
	known entities (Republican - Conservative, Democrat - Liberal, etc)

	... we need to put an end to the constant push to divide ourselves

	The existing process fails because it is exclusive
	and this separatism should have been its undoing

	I believe that we need a spiritual renewal in this country
	and out of that come to indentify ourselves only AS Americans
	
	The two party system does not address real issues nor does it
	provide 'change' ... even a very loose definition of 'change'
	would go beyond the policies of each of the existing parties

> 
> 20.  I'd like to a few things about you.  How old are you?  Are you
> male or female?  What is your occupation?  If you're a student, are
> you an undergraduate or graduate student?  Do you hold any college
> degrees?
>

	Can't you see what these questions are ?
	more questions which seek and serve to only divide us
 	it is this division that we MUST seek to end

	This country suffers from segregating the POOR
        from the RICH ... the BLACK from the WHITE, RED and YELLOW

	As long as we allow the media to tell us that we have
	to be identified as a 'color' or some other meaningless statistic
        and not as PERSON, we will continue to be subjected to
        the exploitation and neglect of the existing political parties


-- 

		Mephistopheles ... ruthless, sleepless, unsmiling,
                concentration on self or humorous, civilised, sensible
                and adaptable 
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