Re: On losing the election

["Carl Westberg" <carlwestberg846@hotmail.com>]

If a century from now the constitution is entirely different, we'll all be 
dead.....                                                                    
                                                                       Carl 
Westberg Jr.






>From: eevans@moscow.com
>To: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: Re: On losing the election
>Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:05:11 GMT
>
> > Greetings Visionaires -
> >
> > Ed Evans stated:
> >
> > "Purely hypothetical, but...
> >
> > Suppose your own ideals and the "will of the people" start to drift 
>farther
>and
> > farther apart. If the above process determines the concrete rights and
>wrongs,
> > what do you do when the process goes against you? Would you change your
> > worldview and admit you were "wrong?""
> >
> > The "process", as defined in the US Constitution, will not likely go 
>against
>me
> > during my lifetime.  Should a majority of the people feel differently 
>than I
>do
> > as to the way the country should be governed, that is "our" perogative.
> > Having
> > retired from the Army, and been around this marble a few times, I don't 
>see
> > myself packing my bags simply because the will of the people does not
>coincide
> > with mine.  That is where the difference exists between liberal 
>"elitists"
>(an
> > oxymoron if I ever heard one) and religious fundamentalism.  I am 
>willing to
> > live in a world that I realize is not perfect and still share a pot of 
>coffee
> > with my neighbor.
>
>Rather, you've resigned yourself to whatever the will of the people 
>desires.
>That's the only way you could possibly share coffee with your neighbor, or 
>that
>they'd share coffee with _you_. If a century from now the Constitution is
>entirely different, and the American people come to embody everthing you
>presently disagree with, you'd be just fine with that. "That's 'our'
>perogative."
>
>Ironically, if America turned into a religous fundamentalist nation, you'd 
>be a
>card-carrying member.
>
>Cheers,
>-Ed Evans
>
>
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