Reply #18: rule of the demos or the demos [View All]

[sweetheart]

If the people's best interests are achieved, is it not demos?

Or, as in the USA, you can vote your little heart out, and have no
representation, for an entire lifetime. Never, in my life, can i
honestly say the government has ever represented my views, but hey!
voting was fun... like a ride at the fair.

There comes a point, where there can be too much democracy, where
the voting is so much, that demos is weakened to plato's confusion
of the ship captain. Yet the test, IMO, is whether the demos's
political best interests are achieved in the end... (end results
test). A voteocracy, is nothing more than a dictatorship where
everyone has a voting video game (and they can be drunk!).

I hope you spend more time stateside, as i think the future of
western democracy resides somewhere in the midatlantic.