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.

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This is true of any political philosophy, not that they all work but everyone is doomed to have a shitty life if most people taking part are complete morons.

Pretty much everyone who spoke or wrote about democracy back when it wasn't an abstract concept said quite a lot about this, that people need to be intelligent and that tyranny of the majority is a very real possibility.

Despite this they are ignored by most people who probably also tell you about how important and wise the same historic figures they ignore are.