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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:09:00 ET
- Sender: Forum for the Discussion of Politics <POLITICS@UCF1VM.BITNET>
- From: "Ellen.Edgerton" <EBEDGERT@SUADMIN.BITNET>
- Subject: planning
- In-Reply-To: The letter of Monday, 21 December 1992 10:51am ET
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- Caius, in using references to American government in your posts about how
- government intervention causes things to collapse, you seem to be forgetting
- that the United States of America is an ARTICIFIAL COUNTRY. It is an
- EXPERIMENT. It is a place where the old rules of power and government have
- been replaced by new "ground rules."
-
- For anyone to claim that the United States ever has been or ever could be
- run only by the government or only by the people's whims is ridiculous.
- The government here >is< the people and the people here >are< the
- government. That's what the original ground rules were for this new
- experiment (well, it was new back then).
-
- Our country has always run into trouble when people try to assert that
- the government and the people are separate and competing entities.
-
- You can argue your points all you like, Caius, but leave the United States
- of America out of it. We may still have an imperfect realization of the
- experiment we embarked on over 200 years ago, but we are still an
- artificial country, and the unique relationship of our people to their
- government (what relationship? Theoretically, we're the same thing) still
- exists.
-
- This probably sounds like "mumbo jingo," but it's the truth.
-
-
- Ellen
-