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Originally Posted by Pierre
I don't think it will work that way.
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Maybe the problem is I am cynical, but I think given a large enough "carrot", the public will let the commissioner get away with a hell of a lot. Look at our government. They have systematically sold our economy to outside countries, as well as wasting billions of pounds on various projects, letting more immigrants in (and various other things) but because they promised tax cuts, we voted them in (well, I didn't, but a lot of people did). Not only did we vote them in initially, but while they were doing that, we voted them in for a second term.
I heard it said somewhere that while people individually are intelligent, witty etc., people as a group can be extremely stupid and prone to panic.