The only way to improve our democracy is to have better educated voters who will be less susceptible to manipulation at election time. Theoretically a black ******* who likes to wear a sombrero should be able to be elected as PM provided a critically thinking electorate agreed with her policies. I'm not sure how to achieve this though; maybe philosophy classes in secondary school?
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Originally Posted by glenc
Is the US a democracy? It costs $millions to run for president, then the president is controlled by the people who donated the millions! And he has a veto!
Is Australia a democracy? Basically the media owners "tell" people how to vote. The winners in this years NSW & Federal elections will be the people the media owners want in office.  |