[Dialogue] Being a Republican

[Charles or Doris Hahn]

Hey George!

Keep on keeping on!  Most of what you say makes great
sense to me.  You just have to laugh at most of the
items in Del's piece; or you would cry your eyes at
the truth of most of them.

Charles Hahn

--- george <geowanda at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I think I would be more impressed by those who
> dislike the Being a  
> Republican piece, if there were actually rebuttals
> to the points  
> made.  That would be interesting.  Of course you
> don't need pieces on  
> Democrats, the mere mention of the name can make you
> chuckle.  Truth  
> is, U.S. politics is much like the old cowboy who
> keeps pulling the  
> trigger trying to get his pistol our of his holster.
>  I just got back  
> from making some speeches in Florida and several of
> the folk there  
> still have not been able to get their houses
> repaired or insurance  
> settlements from two hurricanes ago, let alone
> what's going on in the  
> Gulf Coast (Carlos can fill us in).  No one is able
> to control any  
> border.  The U.S. has the largest divide between
> rich and poor of any  
> developed nation, and despite all the "good news"
> about the economy  
> our local Food Banks are over run (and they check
> the validity of  
> people coming in).  If you read the legislation put
> out that is voted  
> on; it would take a fortune teller to guess at what
> it means.  While  
> the Federal government is getting bigger the tax
> burden in the US is  
> being shifted to State and Local, and what we are
> doing overseas is  
> insane from anyone's point of view.  You are in a
> war you can't win  
> or get out of, and you are piling up debt that no
> one can see over,  
> plus killing people right and left.  86% of the
> people in the U.S.  
> approve a woman's right to her own body (have for
> some time), but our  
> politicians can't seem to get over it.  The middle
> class is hunkered  
> down hoping they'll have a retirement fund they've
> already paid for.   
> And we are caught up debating evolution and the
> literal truth of the  
> Bible.  Now if you can make sense of any of that
> please write an  
> article.
> 
> A long time ago we said that Democracy had won the
> day, and it had.   
> The worst Dictator wants to portray himself as
> democratically  
> elected, but as we said democracy is transisting
> from representative  
> to participative.  That's not a quick or easy
> process.  There are  
> really no established forms for participative
> democracy as there are  
> for representative forms.  And the representative
> forms are firmly  
> entrenched in institutions -just try and change
> anything in any  
> institution simply using participative methods. 
> Only if you can put  
> enough pressure on the representative forms can the
> change happen.   
> Right now the representative forms everywhere, pick
> any country, are  
> under stress.  They don't work like they used to,
> and nobody really  
> believes you can elect someone so smart that they
> can come up with  
> the right answers, ways, etc. for the rest of us. 
> In fact, it's no  
> secret, that money does it (e.g. Cunningham in
> California).  It makes  
> folks feel powerless.  Do something!  Like what? 
> Quietly, I think  
> our methods and those who teach them are doing
> something.  I keep  
> running into people who use them and are learning
> how to make  
> decisions by consensus and figure out
> contradictions, etc.
> 
> A really good read is in the March 14 issue of
> Forbes.  It's an  
> article by Lee Kwan Yee, former prime minister of
> Singapore that  
> points to some of the issues of the day with a
> little history.
> Also his Forbes article in Dec. 26, 2005 on
> Terrorism  http:// 
>
www.forbes.com/opinions/free_forbes/2005/1226/031.html
> 
> george holcombe
> 
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