Comment Re:wrong way round (Score 0) 669
In addition, I'm concerned with the fragile peace in Iraq. It may be inevitable that Iraq will descend into civil war, but the cables probably don't help matters.
Obviously there are some pragmatic issues (making sure the whole thing isn't gamed by one bot voting a million times), but it is an interesting attempt at allowing people to have a truely populist option for their representation.
In the past, true populism was very tough to come by...it was easy for an elected official to become 'out of touch'. However now, a more perfect representation of the views of the moment of people can be had, thanks to technology.
Of course, the other question is, is that even a good thing. Populism isn't always right. Slavery in the US was popular, it took Lincoln's strong leadership to move away from it. Many wars are unpopular, but some of them may be necessary (conversely, some wars may be popular but unnecessary, see US/Iraq Gulf War II).
With your bare hands?!?