>>You don't think that democracy is a good thing?
Brad DeLong
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Democracy as a Platonic Idea or actually existing democracy?
Voting is merely the entrance to the house of democracy. Folks on this list are far more interested in moving the furniture around so that more people feel like entering. Hell some even want to build a differnt kind of house so that voting, as the entrance, takes on a totally different kind of meaning. And until there's some serious moving of furniture, don't expect an increase in voters in the US; something I do not feel is a tragedy given the current historico-ecological-technological-economic morass we're in.
Ian