I voted yesterday. Prop C passed in Missouri.

[Jesda]

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt ... 6de56.html

"Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama's administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in March."

It won't do anything, but it sure felt nice.

[stebo0728]

Stand by .... the law student will shortly give us a reason why Missouri had no right to do this .... its coming, it'll be good.

[vikesfankevin1986]

Democracy is flawed

[stebo0728]

Democracy is flawed

I'll one up that ... democracy is destructive to society.

[audtatious]

Socialism is gooder...just needs the right people to implement it where it finally works.....

[stebo0728]

Socialism is gooder...just needs the right people to implement it where it finally works.....

Haha, I wasnt being sarcastic tho, democracy IS destructive to society. We are NOT a democracy, contrary to popular opinion, and current public school curriculum.

[audtatious]

No, we are not a democracy. You are correct.

[Cold_Zero]

We are a Constitutional Federal REPUBLIC, which embodies elements of democracy. Referendums and Constitutional Amendments that are sent to the states are a perfect example of this.

But we are obviously not a direct democracy like say Switzerland (who does have a parliment though).

[stebo0728]

Said referendums are first introduced by the representative body though. So the end result may be a democratic vote, but it has already passed through the representative filter by having to be first drawn up and presented by legislature. Democracy downwind of representation is ok, but upwind would be catastrophic.

[Jesda]

This thing isn't going to stick anyway. It just feels nice.

[IBCoupe]

Weird that it'd be called a "political victory."

Edit: To clarify, I mean that in the sense that it accomplishes nothing, not in the way that it couldn't be seen as positive.

[wingFeather]

Glad to see that people are standing up for what is right!

[smockers83]

Socialism is gooder...just needs the right people to implement it where it finally works.....

Haha, I wasnt being sarcastic tho, democracy IS destructive to society. We are NOT a democracy, contrary to popular opinion, and current public school curriculum.

I wouldn't go so far to say it's not part of current public school curriculum. I learned in my high school government class that the US is not a direct democracy and that was only 6 years ago. Well, I shouldn't say that I learned it there, but it was taught.