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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I disagree.  More authoratarian styles of government work well no matter how stupid the people are -- simple reason being that the governemnt is not beholden to said idiots.  The king decides, and that's the end of the matter.  Monarchs are also more prone to take the long term view of society, because if the civilization goes belly up, he can't pass the kingdom on to junior.  He's not going to do the same kind of stupid shit that modern democracies do -- things like deficit spend the nation into oblivion, or cut taxes to the point that it affects the future solvency of the country.