>some things are more important and you see that with issues
>like abortion and human rights. that is where democracy is
>the strongest.

Abortion and human rights are the most important? Human rights doesn't even figure in to American policy and abortion is WAY old news. Do YOU even believe this? Can you think of ANYTHING on the political agenda that might be just an itsy-bitsy-bit more important from a democratic standpoint? Like how the country is run?

Representative government doesn't even allude to being democratic in itself because it shuts people out of the decision-making process. The biggest party is the party of non-voters. If the majority of people in the country are middle-to-lower income, and politicians slash social programs, how can you pretend that these representatives have their constituents' interests in mind?

I understand the PREMISE of representative government, I'm saying that it doesn't work in practice--read: Bush is president.


America taught me how to kidnap and torture cats...