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...let’s take a cue from Darwin. We must let the system work not through party politics or interest group wrangling but through good kids with good ideas competing for votes. The council isn’t running a country??€”it’s running a group fundamentally interested in improving student life. We don’t need parties or interest lobbying. We must let the independent, proactive candidates become our independent, proactive council members...
Furthermore, it is self-defeating for several groups dedicated to progressive ideals to tear each other apart in public. The parties in question agree on a range of issues facing our country??€”the glaring exception, of course, is Nader’s candidacy. It is a waste of energy for groups with the same mission to wrestle in the gutter while their mutual opponent struts...
...reality, the Americans had a revolution for many of the same reasons. They wanted to overthrow a power who imposed his will upon the people and who had been allowed to rule without their consent. This power allotted to himself a disproportionate amount of the country??€™s resources and oppressed the common man. And the idea of installing the shah in the first place? Precisely un-American...
Loeb’s response was tongue-in-cheek: “Well, I believe that at the time this country??€™s constitution was written it was considered ahead of its time...
...into something else. When European youth wear Levi’s jeans, watch Dawson’s Creek and read about the presidential debates in Der Spiegel, if not The New York Times, their enthusiasm for America may seem benign, but they are indeed preparing to participate in our country??€™s future and emasculate it of its eminent position as a hegemon...