The only way to elect representatives is through democracy
As democracy is good in electing representatives, it is not the only way, and depending on your views, other methods might be better. In ancient Athens, most significant posts were filled by drawing lots instead of voting. This method eliminates voting for only the influential and wealthy ones who have money to do campaigns.
This practice of random selection by lots is still practiced to select juries. Random selection ratifies Aristotle’s submission that from a point of view, governors and governed are identical. So the myth that democracy is the only way to have people represented is false.
However, people still believe this, and it was echoed by American political sociologist Larry Diamond who defined democracy in 2004 as the political platform to choose and replace representatives through free and fair elections.
6 thoughts on “6 Political Myths People Still Believe”
If the illegal immigrant has a record of paying taxes then they deserve the stimulus.
First off – THE UNITED STATES IS * NOT * A DEMOCRACY.
>>>> IT IS A REPUBLIC.
Another un-educated ,left leaning
tool of anti-American bias.
Do some REAL research and find the reason why the Founders created the electoral college.
It was to insure that under represented states got an EQUAL vote; the people who feed this country, the farmers and ranchers who don’t live in the festering cities
that breed corruption.
I guarantee the person who wrote this article is neither.
Our founding fathers thought of Democracy as the worst form of government, largely because they read the classics, often in their original Greek or Latin. That is why they created a Republic, and why we avoided the Reign of Terror that they had in “democratic” revolutionary France.
The United States has never been a democracy. A pure democracy cannot function on a large population and has no protection for individual rights. It is an ancient idea. The United States idea is limited government where rights are natural and begin with the individual.
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