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To: koan who wrote (47445)	3/15/2009 2:12:55 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217842

Yes, but the word "democracy" covers a multitude of sins: < What you say is true, but unfortunately, the only answer is democracy with all its warts and flaws. > The warts and flaws don't need to be kept. Not all of them anyway. The biggest ones to remove are the ability to vote to spend OPM and creation of yictimless "crimes". At present, people who earn little, pay no taxes, do little of use to anyone, including themselves, and have not much in the way of thinking power, get the same vote as somebody paying $millions in taxes and who creates all sorts of great things. It is obvious that a chimp is going to vote to take a banana farmer's bananas. Democracy has been expanded over the centuries so that anyone who is semi-sentient can vote. I used to think it a good idea for 18 year olds to vote and worked to get that introduced as law and did. I was pleased with my success. I was 18 and a bunch of us thought it a good idea which it is in many ways so we got politically organized. I was surprised at how easy it was to get it done. It was in the interests of Labour at the time to get younger people voting because younger people are left-wingers, moving to the right as they gain age, experience and understanding of the depredations of governments and bludgers. That explains how easy it was to get politicians to accept the idea. The change required is that voters get to vote according to the amount of money they put in. Another change is that citizens have tradable citizenship so the effect of their voting shows in the value of their citizenships. Hitting people in the pocket is a good way of getting sense into them. And make constitutional changes so people can't vote to take the banana farmer's bananas. Voters are like chimps so they should be expected to behave like chimps. Which they do. Mqurice