Map of Democracy.
In the past, I argued America was a republic - or meant to be - but I realize a republic can overlap with a democracy. Shoulda took that into account. Needed a refresher.
Like this quote from the above link:
"But many have noted that the will of the people has tended not to prevail, and that a majority of people eligible to vote are so discouraged that they do not vote. The main reason for this is the buying and selling of elections and politicians by the wealthier class of citizens and their special interest groups. A year or more before elections take place, the winner is decided by those who vote with dollars. But this is a defect in democracy, not a reason to abandon it. The answer is to cure the defect, not to attempt to destroy our representative democracy."
Right, and one way of doing that is to curb big finance's contributions to political parties, promote donations by ordinary people and, yes, have public financing of the parties through statutory allowances based on votes recieved...but then conservatives and libertarians are ideologically against that.
ReplyDeletehttp://jeffreymiron.blogspot.com/2010/01/supreme-courts-ruling-on-campaign.html
ReplyDeleteThere's fair logic in that position. To them, if people can give so can corporations. It becomes intricate after that.
As long as taht type of «logic» prevails the basic problem will remain.
ReplyDeleteI don't think logic needs to be in quotations. There is no zero sum game here. As the link shows, there's enough to question.
ReplyDeleteCircumventing regulations and laws is where the director general of elections come into play but, I may be wrong though, they do not have the equivalent south of the border.
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