TRUE DEMOCRACY (WAY OFF TOPIC)

[mark doukakis]

Rob Klein (off topic):
    <"In a 'true' democracy, all adults should be able to vote directly
on all important issues affecting their lives. Individual citizens (in
the U.S.) vote directly on very few issues and not even directly for
their most important representatives (national president)">


Way off topic here by I gotta respond:

Huh?!  Lucy, 'splain that to me!

This "loosely representative" government offers voters, through the
various media, as much (and probably more) information and analysis as
any on issues and candidates, and offers every possible civil means for
a citizen (as an individual or more logically as a community) to
communicate to and effect his/her local government.

Why, the U.S. citizen is even directly, yes I did say directly (and I
don't know how much more directly than casting a vote on a ballot) is
able to express preference for his/her "national president"!

Mark Doukakis

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