Comment Re:You, ma'am, are wrong. (Score 1) 593
Can I invoke Godwin's Law here? Anywho...
First of all, representive democracy is still supposed to follow the will of the people, i.e. the majority. It's simply a more efficient way of doing it. The whole debate around whether or not elected officials should vote according to the consciensce or constituency has been argued to death. I believe they should vote according to their constituency, hence democratically.
Secondly, since you did bring up Nazis and how they supposedly came to power democratically (let's assume they did), I reply by saying what they promised to do for Germany was right in the eyes of her people. Before you become too disgusted by that statement, let me add that they never promised to commit the Holocaust and Germany's people never asked them to. The Nazi's did rebuild Germany though, which is why they enjoyed such widespread support by her people. If the voting public of Germany knew about the Holocaust and still had a political say, they very well may have taken the Nazi's out of power on their own.
Third, your use of the Nuremburg Trials is absurd as they were merely a poorly contrued way of letting the world feel that there is some greater justice. The arbitrary punishment of a country's citizens by foreign powers for crimes commited against that citizen's fellow citizen is reprehensible in my eyes. It is similar to France passing justice on Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma city bombing as opposed to the American people.
First of all, representive democracy is still supposed to follow the will of the people, i.e. the majority. It's simply a more efficient way of doing it. The whole debate around whether or not elected officials should vote according to the consciensce or constituency has been argued to death. I believe they should vote according to their constituency, hence democratically.
Secondly, since you did bring up Nazis and how they supposedly came to power democratically (let's assume they did), I reply by saying what they promised to do for Germany was right in the eyes of her people. Before you become too disgusted by that statement, let me add that they never promised to commit the Holocaust and Germany's people never asked them to. The Nazi's did rebuild Germany though, which is why they enjoyed such widespread support by her people. If the voting public of Germany knew about the Holocaust and still had a political say, they very well may have taken the Nazi's out of power on their own.
Third, your use of the Nuremburg Trials is absurd as they were merely a poorly contrued way of letting the world feel that there is some greater justice. The arbitrary punishment of a country's citizens by foreign powers for crimes commited against that citizen's fellow citizen is reprehensible in my eyes. It is similar to France passing justice on Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma city bombing as opposed to the American people.
