anvi
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« on: August 26, 2010, 02:19:45 AM » |
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Middle ground positions don't have much to do with logic. Of course no position is logically valid or invalid by virtue of where it might happen to sit on a given political spectrum. Compromises are just politically necessitated by circumstances. Whether one is dealing with a board meeting or a country, there are people with votes in a community who disagree with me. If the number of people who disagree with me is roughly the same as the number of people who agree with me, then middle ground resolutions--compromises--are going to be necessary in order for anybody to get anything (never everything) they want. Hell, that's even true between two people.
The point is, democracy is a pain in the ass. It's like the first post-war Japanese prime minister's joke about democracy. He said that, in Japanese, the English word "democracy" should be translated into Japanese as "demo kurushi," which literally means "but, it hurts."
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