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[pf] Representative Democracy?
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[pf] Representative Democracy?
by David MacClement
08 November 2000 18:38 UTC
· This results from the contrast between the implications of the bit in
that article from the NZ Herald about Tariana Turia (she is one of many
representatives of significant and able minorities), and the (I'll say it
straight out) silly way that the USA has been electing its Presidents for
over 200 years.
· AFAIK, the Founding Fathers had no intention that the average American on
Main St, USA should have the power and ability to elect the Head of State
for the whole Union of States.
· I want to hear comment on this, but at present, I believe their aim was
to keep the power in the hands of people like them - major property-owners.
· It's always puzzled me that citizens of the USA have been so brainwashed
by 200 years of publicity that virtually all believe they live in the most
democratic nation on earth.
· How wrong am I?
· And how /should/ the President be elected? For closer to true
representative democracy, or whatever approximation can apply to the
incumbent of a single position like a Presidency.
David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz
http://www.geocities.com/davdd.geo/index.html#top
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