>> I take it you're not in politics... :)
> 
> Absolutely not.

Sometimes (when I'm very little busy with other things :) I wonder how our
selection process works. I think that's one of the most fundamental flaws
of democracy as we know it: the way we select the representatives. It seems
people "with reason" don't get there very often -- pretty much
independently of the country. We all probably know a few people who are
reasonable enough that we would want them as representatives in any of the
different elected positions -- but usually none of them is in such a
position. It happens here and there locally, but it seems that anybody who
has enough taste for power to go through the machine to get elected for
state or federal office, has already lost his reason :)

Gerhard
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