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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: koan who wrote (53355)9/13/2013 12:45:13 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 85487
 
No one ever argued for a statist democracy.

If you don't support one, then your attack on arguments for freedom and individual choice, rather then political choice, based on the former somehow being less democratic, or the later being "democracy" don't make much sense.

Every city and every school board operates differently depending what the people want.

And they are still state (meaning government, not government at the state level) bodies. Local government is still government.

Beyond that state legislatures, state judges, and in my lifetime congress and federal legislatures have imposed decision making on those local bodies. When the legislatures do it, it doesn't make it any less democratic but it does move things away from local control.
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