[LINK] The PLAN, and broadband speeds?

[Daniel Rose]

David Lochrin wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2007 17:09, Janet Hawtin wrote:
> 
>>>> It is costing us a great deal more than money. Like the dismantling of
>>>> the rail system, the handing over of greenfields to shortsighted and
>>>> rapacious developers, the privatisation of crucial common resources
>>>> like power and a whole raft of other twentieth-century idiocies, it is
>>>> costing us our future.
>>>    Couldn't agree more - sad isn't it?
>> What is government for?
>>
>> Where do we make policy and national interest if government isn't?
> 
>    Both very good questions.  However I think we can farewell the idea of rational government for and by the people for the time being.  The political right unreservedly considers itself "the party of business" and the political centre-left is too afraid of rocking the economic boat.
> 
>    Why does the electorate generally allow such stupendous incompetence or outright lying and manipulation?  

	.... undereducation.  As I've said before, the answer lies in the schools; teach them all about great abuses of power in democracies past, and about their obligations in society and the voting will be more carefully thought out.

	I am convinced that most voters vote in their own perceived self-interest, and not in the interests of their peers (comrades?) or of the nation.  It's usually three different candidates that would be elected, based on the criteria voters use.