wyndhy,
There are many things worse that disagreeing with you.
I experienced one just this week.
Even if, for the sake of argument, we set aside the 20 million Hitler had killed, there remain the details of the 22 – 23 million communist Soviet and Chinese ideological mass murders to tend to.
No, on balance, I believe that it makes for a rather less strained explanation to assign blame where it belongs. Humans are quite comfortable with killing each other. They have done so since the dawn of time, are happily doing so today, and will, barring some unexpected (at least by me) change in the essential human psyche, continue to do so until the sun enters its Red Giant phase and brings to an end this aspect of the Universe Aware of Itself.
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Originally Posted by wyndhy
...i understand the electoral process as you explain it, but i still cannot make the connection from voter-for-candidate to transparency-of-candidate and how an electoral process precludes any misrepresentation of a candidate to his/her constituents...
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I don’t recall making such a connection, or any preclusion.
Permit me to refer to the opening paragraph of the
The Code of Hammurabi
“When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the land, assigned to Marduk, the over-ruling son of Ea, God of righteousness, dominion over earthly man, and made him great among the Igigi, they called Babylon by his illustrious name, made it great on earth, and founded an everlasting kingdom in it, whose foundations are laid so solidly as those of heaven and earth; then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak; so that I should rule over the black-headed people like Shamash, and enlighten the land, to further the well-being of mankind.”
Seems to me that the code was handed down by the guy that the gods put in charge. I wonder if they influenced his laws…
Come to think of it, that has a vaguely Biblical ring to it.