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		rmc on Nov 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can't beat politics with new technology all th... That's, er, the point of constituational democracy. It's not 100% pure democracy.

declan on Nov 18, 2013 [–]

Yep (though it's a constitutional republic, not a constitutional democracy). My point is that discussions about moving the slider even more away from 100% pure democracy should be within the realm of reasonable discourse.

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