[107609] in Cypherpunks
Re: Gallup says go back to sleep
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Tue Jan 19 14:35:52 1999
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:15:02 -0800
To: Jim Burnes - Denver <jim.burnes@ssds.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.990119090057.27737C-100000@denver>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 09:28 AM 1/19/99 -0700, Jim Burnes - Denver wrote:
>...81% .. a success. But only 24%, .. honest and trustworthy.
Amazing - you still can fool some of the people all the time :-)
>Apparently job approval ratings now mean "has his presidency been a success?".
>I have no idea what that means. What would be the conditions of failure?
As always, "It's the economy, stupid!"
Just as crypto is largely about economics, politics is largely about
whether the public is generally happy and prosperous - a president
is more successful being a sleazeball in an economic boom
than a Boy Scout during bad years. Of course, one reason the economy
is doing well is that the Pres and Congress don't get along,
so neither side has been able to push their agendas as actively
as they want, which is good for the country.
>Of course this stuff doesn't really matter since eCash and strong crypto
>enabled geodesic e-commerce will eventually nullify the nation states
>(either that or Y2K). At that point the presidential elections will
>garner as much interest as the annual US Bass Fishing Competition.
Do you know how upset the Animal Rights folks get about Bass Fishing? :-)
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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