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					Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch  Agreed. And that’s why there should be electoral consequences for guessing wrong, down to the amount of budget you claim you need to file the cases that are uphill battles. |  "Should be," in the sense that we need to genetically engineer a better kind of citizen?
 
We could have a lot more democracy than we now do.  All sorts of government decisions could be decided by an electronic referendum of anyone who cares to vote.  I do not believe you think this would make for better policy, at least when you are not trolling liberals.
				__________________“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
 
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