--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Anything that's ever been prematurely forced through to a poll was probably a bad idea. If it
wasn't a bad idea,
decree was probably the right way to do it.
I like the logic here: 'Lets remedy what we claim to be the problems with "prematurely forcing stuff through polls" by forcing stuff through by decree, assuming (with good faith) that such decrees will always come at the right time, and hence be better than consensus.'
Yech.
- s.
Jefferson distinguished in his later years between what he called "aristocrats" and "democrats." The aristocrats are
"those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes."
The democrats, in contrast,
"identify with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the honest and safe depository of the public interest, if not always the most wise."
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