Jeroen wrote: > >BTW, yesterday something happened in The Netherlands that made the country >look like a democracy in the literal meaning of the word -- the government >made a decision based on the will of the people. The Netherlands finally >did the right thing, and announced that it will not give any military >support to the war against Iraq, because it was not supported by the people >of The Netherlands. > It's these kind of emotional and irrational decisions by the people themselves instead of a small number of elected (ideally) ubermenschen that make me thing that a (pure) Republic is better than a (pure) Democracy.
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