Reply #9: IMO they are inseperable [View All]

[justinsb]

You can't have a democracy without an informed population - this means first they have to be educated so they are capable of understanding what they are being told and so that they can think critically and analytically about the information presented to them, then they have to be informed and given good information on which they can base decisions - then they can vote. Anything less isn't really democracy - which is also why I can't consider Iraq, the Palistenian Territories or Lebannon (or the US for that matter) to be democracies.