It is a great irony that the Founders of our nation set up a system that deliberately prevented the masses of people from influencing policy directly, and that we have worked so hard over the past hundred-and-fifty years or so to subvert that scheme in favor of greater democracy -- because, in fact, we have incorrectly taken it on board that democracy is the only morally just position, and greater democracy is practically synonymous with higher morality -- only to land ourselves in a position where more people than ever can vote, but most of the actual decisions are made by small numbers of unelected bureaucratic experts. Put differently: While reforming our government to give people electoral power, we have deformed it to hand actual power off to the chosen few.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:47:17 +0000
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