Democracy is a system which provides political harmony between the individual and the society by granting each individual in that society a vote and voice equal in power to all other individuals. Not true? But it has to be true, because on election day an electorate determines a victor through tally of votes of the individual and not by a cumulative or weighted voting system. Why would a society need circuses to subdue any current unrest in a political system when each individual in the democratic society is provided equal say?

Maybe it has nothing to do with the political system?

The deterioration and ultimate weakening of a democratic society may have less to do with voter registration, voter engagement, voter enrichment, and voter performance and more to do with the gross distinction in economic classhood and continued exposure of a disparity in living standards. Poor people and rich people. Rich people and poor people. They each have their one vote. But one vote sure does mean more than the other.

Daniel, I agree with your last couple posts in larger theory. However, taking money forcibly and giving it to others is a foundation of core government operation. The federal government taxes your income and gives it to a soldier's salary, which provides for national defense. The state government taxes your property and provides it to local schools, so that we can have an educated society. And so on. You and I may agree that Obama's specific initiatives are terrible tools to captivate a certain economic populace, but the theory of government taxation for egalitarian service and prosperity is a bedrock of federal purpose.

I used to be a Republican. Then the Republican party started shoving their interpretation of morality down everyone's throats. I don't know which is worse, the Democratic breadcakes of higher taxation for expanded service or the Republican circus of supercilious righteousness.