Quote Originally Posted by ksst View Post
I think you'd have to put some safeguards in first for the protection of the poor and under-franchised.
And why wouldn't that be necessary in a representative democracy? Or do representatives in the US act and vote in the interest of the poor or under-franchised? I can't think of any such safeguards in place in Switzerland, but the unemployed and those relying on social security are still far better off than those in Germany with a representative democracy, for example.