Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ccice6.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccice5!ccice6!daf From: daf@ccice6.UUCP (David Fader) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: FORCING 30 MILLION Message-ID: <326@ccice6.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 12:52:58 EST Article-I.D.: ccice6.326 Posted: Tue Feb 5 12:52:58 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 09:17:33 EST Organization: The Wall Of Fog Lines: 22 > Uh, excuse me Ken, but about 30 MILLION people disagreed with that idea > last November. Good job Rob. A consise fact. > That says to me this is NOT what the people want. Too bad. I've suggested before you limit yourself to one sentence. I assume you are referring to the 30 million when you mention the people. I submit the theory that in most issues not everyone will agree. Are you suggesting a canidate must get every single vote in order to win? > Or are you suggesting that the majority (moral or otherwise) has the > right to FORCE its will on the minority? This is encouraging. You grasp of politics is increasing. In a working democracy the majority does rule. Would you have designed a system where the losers of an election would be the ones who took office? -- The Watcher seismo!rochester!ccice5!ccice6!daf