Reply #2: No, it's not...

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...see above why. And what do you expect from the people, when they vote Republican on taxes and guns and get crappy schools and environmental destruction? What do you expect from the people, when they can at most choose between the two wings of the Republicratic party, and even then in many races they have no influence whatsoever on the result (Charlie Rangel will have to don a Klan hood to lose an election)?

18th-century democracy doesn't work anymore. The principle of humanism requires social progress, and social progress requires changes in law and legal structures. After 300 years of the same democratic paradigm, it's time for a new form of government, one that relies on the technology of the 1990s and not on this of the 1690s.