Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, September 5, 2019

Fixing Democracy

EJ Dionne makes some good points.  Every democratic government puts some restraints on popular will.  As Brexit has shown, majorities - especially thin ones on complicated issues - are not always correct.  Yet too many restraints - as exists in the US Senate - destroy government, too.

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