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[Randy Edwards]

 > So what the distinguishing characteristics between you and
 > (presumably) me, and members of "the government"?

   Income?  Class?

   I'd have to agree with Jeff. There's no doubt that I and/or we have 
something in common with the people at the town hall and the typical 
bureaucrat in Concord.  But when I think about the make up of the US Congress 
-- almost exclusively millionaire lawyers -- and the entire way higher 
political campaigns/office is funded at all levels, it is crystal clear there 
is a distinct difference.

   Marxists would talk about the "ruling class"; sociologists about 
"socio-economic status"; business types would refer to "people of means".  
Call it what you will, but this has been an issue for a very long time.

 Regards,
 .
 Randy

-- 
"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we 
choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose 
between Tweedledum and Tweedledee." -- Famous American socialist (and blind 
person) Helen Keller, 1911.