midwifetoad
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Joined: Mar. 2008
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I'd be interested to see any evidence of how things would actually be different depending on who wins. I recognize a lot of rhetoric, but in the 40 years I've been voting, I've failed to see a lot of difference in actual outcomes between presidents of different parties.
Just for example, the most enduring outcome of the Clinton presidency may be welfare reform. Not something the democrats intended.
It's also possible that the Russians will use our intervention in Kosovo as cover for nibbling its way back to control of Eastern Europe.
Politics is a game, and intentions don't equal accomplishment. Changing the rules, as in reforming or restructuring voting and representation, will be followed by adaptations, just a surely as bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics.
The only useful test of a political system is whether -- in fact, not theory -- it produces alternations of control among the competing tribes.
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Any version of ID consistent with all the evidence is indistinguishable from evolution.
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