Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: AMuzi Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:24:06 -0500 Organization: Yellow Jersey, Ltd. Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <7knrcj5q82pse9ce8hjo458kkf0jfadh35@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:24:06 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="391128a9098abdd886a139ee623c8167"; logging-data="3705517"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18M0QSkqd8XO9yWUOvTha70" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:W9IQRQFShaFRXphkuT7Nl3O5Uuo= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2272 On 8/28/2024 9:08 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: > On 8/27/2024 9:37 PM, AMuzi wrote: >> >> USA is a Constitutional Republic. >> >> Democracy is something else, for example where the Hutus >> wake up one morning and kill the Tutsis. Because they can. >> >> Or more simply, two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch. > > There are very logical and practical reasons against running > a country as a pure democracy. That's why its essentially > never done. > > Even in a small town, can you imagine needing all the > population to vote on every administrative decision? And can > you imagine how random the votes would be, since very few > voters would understand the context of the issue, or the > consequences of their choice? > > And following the money, it would be easy for those with > profits at stake to flood the citizens with misinformation, > to buy the result they wanted. > As County welfare departments do. -- Andrew Muzi am@yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971