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GARY CONDIT (D) District 18 (Central Valley--Modesto; Merced...
BORN: April 21, 1948, Salina, Okla. EDUCATION: California State U at Stanislaus, B.A., 1972 FAMILY: Wife, Carolyn Berry; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Public official POLITICAL CAREER: Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors, 1976-82; California Assembly, 1982-89; U.S. House, 1989- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1710, Modesto...
...actually believed" technology would solve all the isolation and disillusionment that plague society, while she is stunningly ignorant of the fact that it is our dependence on science and invention rather than on rectitude and intellectual integrity that has contributed to our catastrophic slide into the sewer. MARIAN SCHEELE, Modesto, California...
Lacey Rayner, age 15 Modesto, California I am increasingly frustrated with our tendency in North America to pander to the lowest common denominator, a practice known as participatory democracy. Both U.S. and Canadian democracies are supposed to be based on representation by principled leaders. The Achilles' heel of today's North American political environment is the demand for the government to be slavishly obedient to the mass of ``empowered'' individuals, neatly packaged among a multitude of special-interest groups. In everyday matters, our expectations of government are limitless. Yet we hamstring its ability to act freely with propositions, referendums...
Lacey Rayner, age 15 Modesto, California Hyperdemocracy was an excellent article about an important issue of our time. Congress is becoming a poll-watching, poll-taking Babel, far from the independent deliberative body envisioned by the Founders. We are witnessing the decline of representative democracy to a level not unlike that of rabble-led assemblies in Revolutionary France...