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Interestingly enough, the election of politicians is a good example of a public activity to which Habermas's criteria may be applied. Ironically, Cotton himself seems to support the idea that politicians should gain their authority via the deliberation of a rationally engaged electorate. He writes, "They [most Americans] may lack the talent needed to persuade others or the sophistication to avoid demagogues, but they surely possess the ability needed to hear politicians, ingest their arguments and vote according to their opinions." Habermas would likely agree with much of this statement...
...model: since no person's arguments can be free of personal interest, and no one is capable of fully conceiving some objectively defined version of the common good, Cotton is effectively calling for the establishment of an elite whose membership would consist of the empty set. Moreover, the very idea that there exists some singular and objective idea of the common good is contradictory to the idea of democratic government--if any one person or group of people is capable of conceiving of the common good, why have deliberation...
...like the idea of changing the role of the U.C. so we worry about things besides fighting about grapes," Foster said. "I'd like to see it be about services for the student body...
Okay, they admit it: The idea of vacation days got to L.I. Slim and the KC Line last weekend, and picks were left unmade. (Confidentially, they both would have taken a beating). L.I. Slim is still rather shaken after Week 13's debacle, and he's feeling like nerveless Robert Vaughn in "The Magnificent Seven." But here goes, with forced brio...
Estimates vary, but the entire process, from idea to implementation, should take a year on average, and two years at the longest...