Democracy is a horrible idea. (Score 2, Informative)

The very idea behind Senator Online is absurd and potentially dangerous for this reason: it is democratic. It supposes a government ought to do whatever the people want. We are so used to hearing "democratic" being used as synonymous with "something related to political theory and a good idea as well" that we forget it is merely majority tyrrany, two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. The popular mob acts, uninformed, with caprice and malice, and forever seeks to loot with support of the government the other mobs unlucky enough to find themselves in the minority. Republicanism (the kind written with a lowercase 'r' when it is not first in a sentence) is the only just philosophy of government. We elect members from a more-or-less dedicated political class whose job it is to know the constitution and keep current with events and facts so that they may legislate, we hope, justly and in an informed way. We also space these elections out by several years so that, hopefully, those politicians can be judged not by whether they did what the rabble demanded of them, but by the results of their actions. Anyone who disagrees with me does himself well to read a history of Athens.