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« on: August 26, 2010, 02:19:45 AM »

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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