<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hey, c'mon, give old Winston his due:<br><br><h1 style="margin:0px"><font size="1">"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” (Churchill)<br></font></h1><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">On Dec 24, 2014 9:16 AM, "William Flynn Wallace" <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/pretty-good-year-government?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailyemail&mbid=nl_DAILY_122414&CNDID=20203782&spMailingID=7385232&spUserID=MjczNzc0NzI5OTkS1&spJobID=583096077&spReportId=NTgzMDk2MDc3S0" target="_blank">http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/pretty-good-year-government?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailyemail&mbid=nl_DAILY_122414&CNDID=20203782&spMailingID=7385232&spUserID=MjczNzc0NzI5OTkS1&spJobID=583096077&spReportId=NTgzMDk2MDc3S0</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">Because democracy (representative or otherwise) truly is the worst of all government types, except for all the others (in actual use to govern nations of at least hundreds of thousands).</p>
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