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Entry: Correcting Richard Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/correcting_richard#25793 Post contents: All people, to the extent that they are capable of government at all, are capable of self-gov't. But that is not to say that all people are capable of, or want any part of, electoral democracy. Electoral democracy works well in certain situations, and not at all in others. Where the fundamental differences within a nation are small, electoral democracy works well; where they are large, it tends to collapse into an armed factionalism and civil war. Tribes and creeds that lived together in peace for centuries have dissolved into hatred and bloodshed with the untimely introduction of American-style electoral democracy. So did America, for that matter; our greatest war is still our own civil war. Democracy implies consent of the governed, but it is not necessarily true that annual or bi-annual polls are the best proof of that consent. In other cultures and situations, other methods may be used, and usually are. Sent at: 2008 05 16