Thread: Lib Dems
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Unread 28 Feb 2008, 18:02   #48
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Re: Lib Dems

There's an enormous amount of institutional and cultural momentum built up in western governments to the point where even if the eventual goal is the abolition of the system in any form it would be recognisable you're not going to be able to accomplish this in a constructive fashion without first amending the system, and more importantly society at large, to be more accepting to large scale changes of the kind you envisage. Sure PR isn't a magical button that fixes the problems of liberal democracies the world over but nothing is really.

I wouldn't say we should be afraid of our leaders so much as we should be afraid of their complete lack of anything even vaguely resembling competence. The greedy idiot is a lot more common than the conniving megalomaniac. Admittedly this is all a bit trite but that's mostly what politics seems to consist of.


PS Taking the opportunity to quote a great character in that "people should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people".
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