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Old 04-04-2007, 08:12 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby View Post
A "true democracy" has all of the affected persons (you and I) voting on each and every issue that comes to hand - a logistically impossible scenario in all but the smallest of entities.
The fact remains that we are not a true democracy, so to claim that having a representative process for electing the President is somehow anathema to our system of government is ignoring the fact that there is almost no part of our government that acts on a directly democratic vote. It is not antithetical to what we use democracy for. It may very well be that a democratically elected President is a good idea, but, "It's undemocratic to do it otherwise" is an argument that doesn't hold much water.
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