Citizen Participation Is A Device

The Soviet Union Came Apart Along Ethnic Lines. The Most Important Factor In This Breakup Was The Disinclination Of Slavic Ukraine To Continue Under A Regime Dominated By Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia Came Apart Also, Beginning With A Brutal Clash Between Serbia And Croatia, Here Again 'nations' With Only The Smallest Differences In Genealogy; With, Indeed, Practically A Common Language. Ethnic Conflict Does Not Require Great Differences; Small Will Do.

The Liberal Left Can Be As Rigid And Destructive As Any Force In American Life.

So Many Of The New Nations Which Were Established As Democracies After The Second World War, During The Decolonizing Process, Have Now Changed Their System To State-socialism. Small Elites Run Them, And They Aren't Sharing Societies. They Aren't Even Socialist. The Power Of The State Has Been Merged With Business Property And You Have The Greatest Concentration Of Power That's Possible.

The Atmosphere In Which Social Legislation Is Considered Is Not A Friend Of Truth.

The United States In The 1980s May Be The First Society In History In Which Children Are Distinctly Worse Off Than Adults.