> > Drop the "-ish" please. Political power is, in ALL
> > cases derived from the consent, explicit or tacit,
> > of "the people".
>
> That is an insult to opressed people everywhere, be it
> Iraq, Palestine, Tibet or somewhere else.
Welll .....
> Claiming that
> there is tacit consent is a cowardly way of sneaking
> out of the responsibility to oppose totalitarian rulers,
> regardless of their -ism.
It may have been better expressed in reverse : there is no political power withouth the consent, implicit or explicit, of the people.
> > Democracy isn't necessarily the best system
> > for one and all.
>
> The challenge then is for you to name one case where a
> non-democratic government is better.
Theocracy. Vatican.
Venice during the Renaissance.
et cetera ad nauseam ...
Julian
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