"thunder" wrote in message
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:48:50 +0000, Doug Kanter wrote:

Thank goodness for simple labels, right, tooth-boy? You'd be in a
persistent vegetative state without them. At least now, you can create a
facade of consciousness.

The header got me thinking. It must be my memory, but I can't think of
one *true* democracy that was ever overthrown from the left. I can think
of many, many, democracies overthrown from the right. The left has been
known to overthrow kings, dictators, and other tyrants, but democracies?
Help me out, there has to be at least one.

I'm not aware of any, either. However, on the other extreme, conservatives,
represented by the paramilitary, the military and the police, are doing a
pretty good job of undermining what little government is left in Colombia.
They've been doing it since the 1940s, at least.