[Peace-discuss] More on election

[John W.]

At 10:31 AM 4/18/2007, Brian Dolinar wrote:

>Don't confuse this for what it is:
>White backlash to smoking ban/chief/consent decree.
>
>BD


The lad has a point.  Not only does democracy require patience and hard 
work, but history is cyclical.  If we're lucky we get to take two steps 
forward while taking only one step back.  And sometimes we're not lucky.

John Wason



>On 4/18/07, Bob Illyes <<mailto:illyes at uiuc.edu> illyes at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>Yup, Karen, everything is my fault. As a recovering German Protestant,
>this has never been less than obvious to me.
>
>On a more serious note, this election was decided by the ability
>of the parties and other organizations to get out the vote. Annette
>in particular worked her tail off, but somehow the rest of us let
>her down. This is a hard problem, with the media largely under the
>control of the right. But it is not a problem we can't solve.
>Democracy requires a lot of patience, unfortunately.
>
>Bob
>
>
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