[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[Khaled Alkotob]

Craig

I agree with you 100%.

The point i was trying to make, is that I would rather see an educated
aristocracy with good stewardship as opposed to a democracy with 
( as someone put it a few days back ) a beauty contest every 4 years.

I live in a town where the mayor is a former TV actor who played a
sheriff deputy. When he was running for election, a citizen was quoted
that the reason she is voting for him is because of his law enforcement
experience.
He won.

Sadly, the issue in this democracy of ours is not just with the elected
official, but the hoodwincked-voting-public that puts them in office.

On a lighter side, it' s probably easier to have a class welfare to
remove the aristocracy than to recall a bad politician.

Khaled
[Craig]

> Ian & Khaled,
> Aristocracy: n. government by the best.  This is the system tried by 
> England: a special hereditary class of leaders, educated at Eaton & 
> Oxbridge, coming together at the court, etc.  Granted democracy has 
> similar problems to aristocracy, e.g., choosing the right leaders, 
> corruption & so on.  But the former has one advantage over the 
> latter in respect to stability.  When something goes wrong in an 
> aristocracy, it becomes an "us vs. them" class warfare.  But when 
> something goes wrong in a democracy, the people (should) realize the 
> solution is in their hands (if not, it's no longer a democracy.)
> Craig   
>