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Originally Posted by henry quirk
Is that what we have, toad?
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Yes.
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I look at your rep gov, your democracy, and I see grasping hands barely kept in check by other, equally grasping, hands.
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By design.
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You enshrine the grasping hands of 'the mob', claim it's 'proper' cuz 'we the people are the organizers'...more of that 'finer clay'.
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Yes I do. It's We The People. It's us man. You and me. Same clay in every person.
The best way is to let everyone vote. The people form their own government. Constitutionally limited with super-majorities required for major changes. That is ideal. Anything else is unthinkable, really.
How great an idea was that? It's amazingly stable.
Here's a list of sovereign nations by their date of formation. By birth of current form of government or establishment of sovereignty, the US is the 2nd oldest. It's behind San Marino.