From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 15:22:44 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> Rafal asks
>
>> ### You are not suggesting that the majority is always right, are
>> you?
>
> By no means. Here in America, I find them to be in error in
> just about every other election year! ;-)
>
> Joking aside, and trying to look at it from an objective historical
> perspective, we find that although indeed they err, the
> representatives elected by the majority err less over the long run
> than do the those exercising power in other forms of government. At
> least some *class* of citizens should elect officials, that much
> seems to be clear.
>
> But more germane is, where do we go from here? Back tracking to
> despotic forms of government, or various kinds of oligarchy,
> seems sure to retard progress. (Recall Winston Churchill's
> famous dictum about all this.)
>
### I said it before, but it bears repeating: supermajoritarian bicameral
IQ-tested demarchy.
Rafal
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