No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.
Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.
The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion.
It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.
Democracy is more than a ballot box.
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.
The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.