[Peace-discuss] How Democracy Dies…

[C. G. Estabrook]

  And Ralph should know.  After all, doesn't he have the pennies from the 
corpse's eyes?


On 10/12/10 1:49 AM, John W. wrote:
> Ralph Langenheim informs me that it has.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jbw292002 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I guess my one question would be this:  If a majority of eligible voters,
>     without overt coercion, are complicit in electing tyrants to rule them
>     (whether or not said voters are somehow misled by the mass media), has
>     democracy died?
>
>
>
>         On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Brussel Morton K.
>         <MKBRUSSEL at comcast.net <mailto:MKBRUSSEL at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>             Disgust and rage… Is he wrong? Is this how Thomas Payne wrote?
>
>
>                   How Democracy Dies: Lessons From a Master
>
>             Monday 11 October 2010
>
>             by: Chris Hedges  | *Truthdig | Op-Ed*
>             <http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_democracy_dies_lessons_from_a_master_20101011/>
>

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