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On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:08:23 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> 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.

Actually, the biggest reason a pure Democracy is wrong is because the
majority can vote to violate the rights of the minority, or as Mr Muzi
said, "two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch."

That could happen, even with a representative government, without the
Constitution.