On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 12:59:50PM -0500, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > No, because democracy is inefficient in our case. > > I would go a step further and say democracy is always inefficient, in > fact it is "inefficiant by design"
Indeed, there is a reason why in the US a republic was formed by our founding fathers and not a democracy. How things have shifted I don't know, but they feared anything resembling a democracy (cf. The Federalist Papers) for the same reasons why our government is as it is today. A republic would be a better choice. I am however just one voice and one choice, so I kinda don't suspect these opinions to change the course of Debian. I do think however that now is a bad time to discuss it in detail. Right now hamm is more important because the uses are more important than our squabbles over political structure.
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