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From: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Referendums
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Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 07:01:22 EDT
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J.B. Robinson suggests that Mulroney is afraid to let the
people govern themselves and that this is a bad thing.

Sure, letting the people decide is in accord with the basic principles
of democracy, but ignores one important fact: people are stupid.

Matters of low importance, such as which party is in "power" (but the
country is really run by the bureaucrats) are safe things to leave in
the hands of voters.  But when public opinion can be easily manipulated
by the media, important issues can't be treated fairly and rationally
by the public.

Some would say that statistics will cancel the good votes and the bad votes,
and the real answer will be the average, but I think that's too simple
in many cases.

Would you trust your future to someone who reads the National Star?? :-)

John

There - that should stir things up a little :-)