[Joe Dees]
He obviously knows little about the US. We have our own method of
regime change here; it's called the popular vote. We'll leave the armed
uprisings to the people whose governments are authoritarian and
antidemocratic enough to require them.
[rhinoceros]
I have been thinking about democracy as a philosophical ideal and as a government system in connection to why Bush, with his specific (dis)abilities and traits, was nominated from his party and then (almost) elected. I am not talking about how media manipulations or mischief were possibly carried out; I am talking about what is implied by these facts. Why not some other republican? Is democracy really working as supposed to, according to its philosophical basis?
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