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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]One is our legitimate current political system and many of us feel relieved it worked, hoping it would bring with it a more serious attitude towards the electoral body and the act of legislating.

The other is not the legitimate expression of democracy in our system and is thus fairly prosecuted.

So one is our current democracy and the other is not, a big difference

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Just remember when Congress removes rights that you enjoy and support, that is also the system working in your view. In principle, you are fully behind Congressional interference. [/quote]

In the context of our privileged status as a federal district. That’s our democratic system until it’s changed.

Do I wish they had been a possibility of a congressional intervention when a number of states enacted anti-abortion acts last year? Yes. But I would not have been fully behind it because that’s not our democratic system.

That I think makes me a fairly consistent and even keeled democratic citizen, albeit quite a liberal one.

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Correction. That is our system, but not a democratic one. The US is a republic in which citizens elect representatives to pass laws. DC residents are not allowed to elect such representatives and, hence, are not full participants in the republic, let alone democracy. During the time in US history in which only male property owners were allowed to vote, that was the US system but few would consider it an adequate democracy.

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