From: "Phil Payne" 

> That's very far from the main Anglo-American conservative tradition --
> which used to spend a lot of time trying to understand the unusual and
> fortunate conditions that have fostered the emergence of democracy.

Indeed.  Through recorded history - and I don't care whose - democracy is
very much a minority form of government.

Rameses? Alexander the Great?  Genghis Khan? Mao Tse Tung?  Hitler?  Stalin?

95%+ of the political history of mankind is that of the dominant male.

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