Reply #70: Representative government [View All]

The problem appears to be that "the people" have to settle for one voice in a democracy (unless the country adopts New England style town-hall meetings) and when that happens, it ALWAYS falls to the lesser of evils, or the best of the rest..... then, to achieve anything in this system, a person is forced to always compromise to get a little of what she wants to accomplish. It's cumbersome, unwieldy, and accomplishes little but it's what we have. The trick is to find that person who does not sacrifice principle but yet can get the program implemented. I can think of a few people in our history who have been able to push our democracy in a different direction, but very few.