Reply #6: I don't think it's a referendum on 04 so much... [View All]

[Romberry]

...as I think it's a referendum on the ability of Americans to know enough to sustain democracy. (Short version: Are voters really this stupid?)

Apparently a lot of people just don't know much about the history of western civilization. They don't know the lessons of "too much democracy" from ancient Athens. California has a system that allows the voters to vote for all kinds of goodies at the same time they vote for all kinds of propositions that leave their state unable to pay for what they just voted for. And let us not even consider a recall system in which a sitting official can draw 49.9% of the vote and lose their office to a candidate who may only garner 10 or 20% of the vote. How effing crazy is that?