On Tuesday 31 October 2006 04:57 pm, Dave Haynie wrote: > Any system of government can eventually become a tyranny, and once > you've hit that, the differences, left/right, etc. are meaningless... > they all wind up in effectively the same place, simply because this > inherently a degenerate state. Once a single individual or group have > ultimate authority, there's no system of government other than the whim > of the leader(s). This was Orwell's point.