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Old 05-07-2008, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by White Fox View Post
I'm glad we can agree on this. However, if you were to read The Federalist Papers (which I encourage you to do) you would know that there is a problem with this. Greek democracy cannot work in a large country with different interest like America. That is why you need pluralism, so that the interests of one group cannot dominate other people. This freedom is the object of democracy.

But this is my point - In the USA, as is the case in all countries, the interests of a handful of concentrated interest groups dominate the bulk of the population because they effectively control Congress by stealth veto.

The USA is a prime example of this subversion of the public from the democratic process

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