From: Adam Flinton 

Gene McAloon wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:39:15 +0100, Adam Flinton

> wrote:
>
>
>>>Naw, it is the mindless center. The people the Brits often refer to as
>>>"switchers." The people who can't make up their minds
from one election to
the
>>>next, mostly out of ignorance because they know so little of politics.
>>
>>Nope. I am a power consumer & I reserve my right to choose my power
>>producer on market principles as it helps make the power market more
>>efficient & produce the goods better for me. Those who are wedded to a
>>given supplier through dogma are simply sad people who can't be bothered
>>to think.
>
>
> It is the ignorant people who can't see or understand the difference between
> Conservatives and Labour who switch back and forth from one election to the
> next, often for no better reason that one candidate is bald and the other is
not
> or one is more telegenic than the other or one wants to raise taxes and the
> other wants to cut them.
>

Nope. I see no real difference between new labour & the conservatives.


> The switcher is one who decides on a superficial and mostly self-serving
basis
> who to vote for. Larger issues, what is best for the largest number, what is
> best for the country are ignored both because the switcher thinks only of
> himself, but also because he has little understanding of the larger issues.
It
> is all me, me, me. The switcher is often as easily swayed as any mindless
mob.
>

It is all me, me, me. Anyone who believes other is deluded. Even those who
claim to be doing things for others are simply masking their own wishes
& lust for power behind a facade of faux-righteousness.

Possibly when there were big issues e.g. slavery then you could have made
that argument, but in today's global market driven orthodoxy then it's just
about delivery.

Adam

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