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i think the speed of communications--in the broadest sense (that is not just "the media") indicates that the american system as a whole trades rigidity for democracy, and that the structure is itself outmoded. i think a parliamentary style system is preferable. i can't get my head around the idea that it was somehow preferable to endure the bush administration for 8 years to having the potential "chaos" of a mechanism for voting a government out through "no confidence". i don't see the advantage. i also don't see the advantage of the current party system as over against a multi-party system. democracy can be messy---so what? it's not an argument against it. i would think that more as over against less system responsiveness would be preferable in every way.
alot of americans it seems really don't like democracy very much.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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