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From: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
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Subject: Re: A "New" Reich
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In a previous article, barber@jazz.concert.net (Scott Barber) says:

>
>Interesting, while there are certainly going to be disagreements
>about policy orientations and various matters of style, I find it
>difficult to understand how Clinton's qualifications could be
>reasonably shunned.  We can all dally with ideas of putting a
>quantum-physicist, plumber, CEO or small-business owner into the
>White House, but realistically and practically, a Rhodes scholar
>become Constitutional law professor to continually re-elected public
>office holder seems pretty strong to me.

     Yes, of course.  Exactly.  The common people are too
     ignorant to lead, or decide thier own fate.  Only
     a learned (ex) Rhodes scholar can do this.  Only a
     lawyer.  The American people are too ignorant to
     hold office and decide their own fates.

     This thinking permeates our society.  Elitism.
     You have only added one more nail to America's coffin for me
     with this argument.

>I have been a supported of Clinton for a while, now, and I have
>talked to a lot of Clinton supporters.  I can think of none of them
>who think that Clinton will "save them."  Rather, they hope (as do I)
>that there will be a more open attitude in Washington to a broader
>range of voices than that which has prevailed for decades.

      And in the same breath, " a broader range of voices "
      even as we speak together of an elite government.

>
>Think that if you want.  I have thought it often, and not because of
>the party in the seats of power.  But America has never been alive
>unless its people were toiling to make the democracy work.  Those of
>who toll the death bells participate in the killing.

     And lo, the Double-Speak, wherein the victim is at fault,
     the robber is victim, and speaker of truth, the liar.

     And from the Double-Speak came the " learned words "
     of
           " investing " in America
           " concensus-building "
           " courage to change "

      And so the media did speak such words, and the true, critical
      thinking did perish, and the tyranny of the hoodwinked masses
      lay fallow over the land.

      And such.  And so did America, land of freedom and determination
      did slowly smother under the weighty lawyer's words.
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