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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:40:52 -0400
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 08:58:56 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:

>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.
>
>I grew up in a small New England town and it was governed by a pure
>democratic system. We had "Town Meeting Day" where everyone met in the
>"Movie Theater" and elected a "Select Man" for the next year. Each
>department head had to get up and defend their department's actions
>over the previous year and justify any unusual actions planned for
>next year.
>
>It's still governed in a similar manner, a 9 man elected City Council
>who elect or appoint a City Manager who handles the day to day
>programs.
> 

What you describe is a representative democracy. A pure democracy
would be where each individual voting citizen voted on each and every
thing the government did. A pure democracy would also have no
limitations on what the government could do. In a pure democracy you'd
have no rights and a majority vote could force you into slavery.