This Democracy thing

And so, a few weeks ago when I fired off my email to my local democratically elected representative raising my concerns about an upcoming change in the copyright legislation, I expected it to disappear into the void like so many job applications.

Only to receive a response ten minutes ago, informing me that my concerns, shared with many others, had been brought to the minister proposing the legislation's attention, and that he'd received an answer that might be of interest to me.

And it genuinely was.

Democracy works.

Democracy works in a non-idiot society. The solution is direct democracy, where idiots will vote for the first few times (because they're selfrighteous morons). Because of terrible decisions, the country will crash and they will realise that they're too stupid to mess with such matters, leaving it to the rest of people.