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Originally posted by wonderwench
What better form of government?
Given that the only reason to have a government is to provide protection against those who trangress our liberty, humanity will have to evolve into a race of angels for the need to go away.
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Given that you only get on average 50% voter turnout anyway during presidential elections, perhaps the old "philosopher king" idea isn't so far out. Half the population doesn't contribute to democracy anyway, as they do not participate.
http://www.fairvote.org/turnout/preturn.htm
The rest of us can simply tell the sheep what to do.