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I have no idea why this is getting downvoted. The current political climate in the US is fucking abysmal, and bears little resemblance to a representative democ
by knieveltech 15y ago
I have no idea why this is getting downvoted. The current political climate in the US is fucking abysmal, and bears little resemblance to a representative democracy.
- mistercow 15y agoYeah, it's not like we'd be surprised to find out that the NSA, for example, asked hardware manufacturers to include a backdoor for government use.
- knieveltech 15y agoWouldn't be the first time: http://www.austinlinks.com/Crypto/non-tech.html http://www.austinlinks.com/Crypto/non-tech.html
- grannyg00se 15y agoProbably because the comment didn't contribute to the discussion at hand and had a high troll potential. It's unfortunate that the author decided to throw that comment into the article because it is naive sounding and seems quite out of place there as well.
- mistercow 15y agoI suppose it doesn't open up much possibility for discussion afterward, but I wasn't intending to troll. I just think we need to remember that we don't have to imagine some undemocratic international threat to understand why these issues are important.
- javert 15y agoI think it does strongly resemble a democracy. This reflects quite poorly on (my fellow) Americans. Now, you could go with a proportional representation system instead of a winner-in-each-district-takes-all system, but you know who the two big parties with the power would be? The same two.
- batista 15y agoThe make the decision making process democratic, i.e not depending on just the two major parties. Also lose the 'president' father figure -- just keep the few hundred elected guys.