RE: POL: Extropianism and Politics

Terry Donaghe (tdonaghe@yahoo.com)
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:09:25 -0800 (PST)

---Billy Brown <bbrown@conemsco.com> wrote:
>
> Terry Donaghe wrote:
> > Can anyone describe a different version (or any version) of
democracy
> > which could possibly be in line with the Extropian principles? Open
> > society and perpetual progress come to mind as key principles to
> > consider?
>
> Sure - a constitutional republic. We used to have one of those in
the US,
> but that hasn't been the case for about 70 - 100 years (depending on
where
> you draw the line). The crucial feature is that the central
government
> should not have the power to do most of the things that special
interests
> would care about.
>
> Billy Brown, MCSE+I
> bbrown@conemsco.com

Can such a government keep itself from travelling down the same road that we have? Is there any way to prevent the slide into bigstatism/socialism with democracy???

==
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