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If more people voted, if fewer people like you held an attitude like that, then you wouldn't have to pretend.
by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
If more people voted, if fewer people like you held an attitude like that, then you wouldn't have to pretend.
- mkr-hn 16y agoIf 100% of eligible people voted, it still wouldn't be a pure democracy. It's not how the system is designed. Our system is built on the assumption that most people don't have the time or capacity to understand all the issues, so we elect people to do the understanding for us.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoI'm not sure I understand what you're saying. It seems like you're saying that to be a democracy it must be that everyone has a say/vote in every decision made about every issue. Is that right?
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- mkr-hn 16y agoI'm saying that more people voting won't change the choice of representatives. If people are voting for the same ineffectual or destructive candidates, it makes no difference whether turnout is 300 million or 100 million. The solution isn't to get more people voting. It's to run better candidates.
- thecoffman 16y agoTechnically that is correct. According to my fourth grade social studies teacher a true or "direct" democracy is one in which each eligible voter votes on each issue. What we have is a representative democracy or a Republic where we vote on representatives that we assume will then vote on the issues in our best interests.
- tomjen3 16y agoAs long as you can give money to the politicians, as long as the gerryman as much as they want, as long as there is only two parties that are likely to get elected, your vote doesn't matter.
- Semiapies 16y agoIf more people genuflected to the civic religion and thought the right thoughts, a miracle would happen. Honest. (Not really.)