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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:24:06 -0500
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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