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- From: tim@ear-ache.mit.edu (Tim Wilson)
- Subject: Re: "No Wavering on Gay Soldiers"
- In-Reply-To: tdbear@dvorak.amd.com's message of Fri, 22 Jan 93 15:11:29 GMT
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:14:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.151129.5392@dvorak.amd.com>
- tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett) writes:
-
- Clinton, as well as Bush, is welcome to publically come out in favor
- of one program or another, but it is ethically wrong for them to force
- their ideology on the rest of the nation if the rest of the nation
- wants something else. That is the main thing that is wrong with
- politics now. We have a bunch of old queens sitting on seats of power
- and dispensing their tired old beliefs. It is the PEOPLE that they
- represent who should have the voice... especially in major policy
- decisions.
-
- The only thing that's clear, regardless of the opinion polls and the
- exit polls and the call-in shows, is who got enough votes to win. No
- single voter goes in and endorses every position of any candidate.
- Except for referenda, the voice of the people is expressed in who won.
- The referendum process sometimes shows just how awful the majority
- might behave in a democratic system.
-
- Can you think of a good example? What? Those folks in Colorado, in
- Colorado Springs aren't people? They're not my kind of people, but
- they're people, nonetheless. And they're a big part of "the people."
- Too big of a part for my tastes.
-
- Believe me, I'm perfectly happy to go about getting people who might
- not wholeheartedley support gay rights -- and you know I mean equal
- rights for gay people -- to vote for politicians who do. I want the
- rights that are properly mine. I want them instituted, and I want
- them to have time to settle in and become the status quo. I have a
- hard time imagining that happening by giving "the people" all the
- choices. We'll be waiting forever to get our rights without the
- bravery of some inspired politicians going against the will of "the
- people."
-
- --
- Tim Wilson
- Internet: tim@ear-ache.mit.edu
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- Bad Colorado. No business.
-