Reply #166: And when you can control the outcome of elections, you have all the power you need.

[Larry Ogg]

The number of how many rulers or law makers there are - in a system of government - is not as important as the quality of character within the rulers or law makers. There is no better example than the American system of government which I almost always refer to as a pretend democracy; because, with a few exceptions, most law makers can not and do not get elected without corporate sponsors to finance their campaigns, at which time the American voters get to decide which corporately owned hand picked candidate their going to vote for; some will call me cynical, but I just can't fathom as to how this process is supposed to be a real Democracy.

A national initiative would be a good, except for one thing, and someone here on DU set me strait on that one, most Americans are setting at home watching game shows, soap operas, sports and fake news; so you would have to consider how informed they are or are not when asking them to vote for or against something they don't have a clue about; to me, the way we choose our leaders is similar to a national initiative; and look around, somehow I just don't think this process works very...