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Here's my question: why was such a momentous decision decided by a board of five people? A decision that will affect hundreds of millions of people was decided
by briga 9y ago
Here's my question: why was such a momentous decision decided by a board of five people? A decision that will affect hundreds of millions of people was decided by five people. Isn't that insane? Whatever happened to democracy in America?
- nkkollaw 9y agoThat's exactly how democracy works.
- supermdguy 9y agoAmerica is not a democracy. It's a representative democracy.
- briga 9y agoI find it hard to believe that the will of the people is adequately represented by five people. Not that it really matters--with the massive split between the Republicans and Democrats basically the party with the most board seats will win.
- heurist 9y agoThis is what American voters chose last year.
- briga 9y agoThat is arguable, considering Trump lost the popular vote.
- nickik 9y agoPeople need to stop pretending that 'the people choice' about everything when they got to vote once. Even that one vote was basically sounded with lots of pre-voting and all sorts of other things. If you look into the actual political economy of the situation it is quite clear that 'the will of the people' has little to do with the outcome of the political process. That is just a reality. The fundamental problem is not the alt-right on twitter but the american political system with its layers of Byzantine rules and insane bureaucracies.
- jonbronson 9y agoAnd how are they allowed to get away with demonstrably false technical errors on record? There should be some checks and balances here.