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You can still pick which parties to support or even create a new party and that choice seems to me to be the foundation of representative democracy.
by tdb7893 10y ago
You can still pick which parties to support or even create a new party and that choice seems to me to be the foundation of representative democracy.
- tremon 10y agoThe "foundation of representative democracy" is to have a representative in the decision making process (-cracy) for every part of the populace (demos). Political parties are not essential to that premise. Representatives that can have their voice heard are.
- tdb7893 10y agoSorry for being unclear, but it's having a choice that is essential, not parties themselves. It is a representative democracy, you just choose a party instead of a person but it's the exact same concept.