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[quote=Anonymous]Americans don't know what a democracy is, and thus that's why the word democracy is used all the time by politicians and teachers. The more the word is used, the less we have of it. If we wanted a truly representative government, we would <select delegates>, not <elect representatives>, by random lottery. No elections. No money. No campaigns pleading with people to "vote for me." Random selection of delegates would produce a subset of the larger population that is representative of the larger community. Instead, what we get with elections is a legislative body comprised of mostly rich people, and friends of rich people, acting in the interest of the rich. The central problem of living in large groups is how do we make large-scale decisions? Monarchy and other forms of autocratic rule are not acceptable, nor is parliamentary republics. Both are tyrannies. Yet, how do we live and work in small groups, while making large-scale decisions?[/quote]
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