Luckily, Debian isn't a democracy. It's a voluntary association. That is the reason that I began using the Debian distribution in the first place.
Unlike a democracy, the "majority" cannot force its views on the "minority". Anyone who doesn't like the Debian policies, or the election or decisions of a leader, can choose not to contribute any more, or to walk away completely at very little or no cost to themselves. If you try to do that in a real democracy you go to prison, because you live at the sufferance of the "majority". That is the lesson of Socrates. "The State was a Mistake" http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=1522 You might enjoy Hans Hermann Hoppe's book, _Democracy, The God That Failed_. http://www.mises.org/misesreview_detail.asp?control=199&sortorder=issue "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: "From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage." ~Alexander Fraser Tytler (later Lord Alexander Fraser Woodhouslee), in "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic," published 1776. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history
