re Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <ross.stapletongray () gmail com>
> Date: November 30, 2018 12:17:03 JST
> To: DAVID FARBER <dave () farber net>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies 
> weaker
>
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 6:40 PM Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> > A widely held belief on the political right is that the most important "freedom" is private property rights, and 
> > since rich people are always outnumbered by poor people, subscribers to this ideology hold that "freedom is 
> > incompatible with democracy," because in a fair vote, the majority 99% will vote to redistribute the fortunes of the 
> > minority 1%. In this conception, the rich are the only "oppressed minority" who can't be defended by democracy. 
>
> Everything I know I learned from musical theater, and Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards address why the above calculus 
> fails perfectly in their "1776," in an exchange between John Hancock and John Dickinson:
>
> Hancock: "Fortunately there are not enough men of property in America to dictate policy."
>
> Dickinson: "Perhaps not. But don't forget that most men without property would rather protect the possibility of 
> becoming rich than face the reality of being poor."
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