Amen to that, MAV. There is only one race...HUMAN! Now there's a simple truth that bears repeating now and then.

I agree that individual right-wingers are more inclined toward small gangs and leftists toward big ones, but that does not necessarily follow with right-wing governments...who work happily with multinational corporations, generally speaking, to exploit the have-nots in the world. The multinationals are capitalists, but they are among the biggest gangs we've seen yet in this world. To me, they are like Communists with a new party line...which is...make money and lots of it by any means possible, regardless of consequences to nature, society, or human rights and moral decency.

I've noticed that the city politics in my home town of Orillia are basically far more democratic than the Ontario provincial political system or the Canadian federal system, because the people involved in city politics are far better known to the public who votes for them, and accordingly are more responsive to that public.

So Spaw may be onto a good idea here with his notion of city-states. More local control leads to better government. The ultimate horror is a state-centered authority like Stalinist Russia, which caused the deaths of millions of small farmers and their families in its efforts to collectivize agriculture. Such a government is utterly out of touch with the aspirations of its people, and is capable of atrocities that pass all understanding.

It is the same catspaw49, MAV. He's a very smart guy, he just has a wicked sense of humour at times, that's all.

- LH