What is the will of the people? Whatever it is, it is certainly not without contradictions, illusions, misinformation, and wishful-thinking – just like a lot of individual thought. But as an aggregation of individual thought it is a construct used to justify all sorts of things. In some people’s minds, this construct has claim to moral authority…The will of the people is a construct that is quite malleable to the political purposes of whichever group is better at manipulation.
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This is from New York University’s Mario Rizzo at the ThinkMarkets.com
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