🚀 go-pugleaf

Mark Weinstock wrote:
> The US has never been a true democracy. It would take too long to get
> anything done. Imagine having to deal with a referendum on every law, every
> budget item, every kookie idea that someone had and posted as a potential
> law. That's the downside of democracy. Who would decide what bills get put
> on a ballot? How would they be chosen? See where this is going?

That's why a system where the people vote for GOOD legislators and
executives
works so well.  People do not have to micromanage their government. 
When
the people elect POOR candidates, it really isn't much worse than
chaotic
democracy.

> We only meant to make society better. Law would lay everything out for
> us. But law cannot save us from ourselves. Waking up every morning, we
> have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements
> by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not
> millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let
> judgement and personal conviction be important again. There is nothing
> unusual or frightening about it. Relying on ourselves is not, after all,
> a new ideology. It's just common sense.
> 
> - Philip K. Howard in "The Death of Common Sense"

I read this book, it was very good I thought.  People get the government
they deserve.