{"id":321,"date":"2004-01-25T19:41:46","date_gmt":"2004-01-25T19:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:29","slug":"democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot of pressure for us to quickly implement direct democracy<\/a> over in Iraq. While I’ll qualify this by noting that I haven’t read the details of the proposals, I’ll toss out one quick question, assuming that it means what it sounds like – a direct national vote for a legislative and possibly executive body.<\/p>\n

One question that’s been nagging at me, and I’ve expected my blogging betters to have raised:<\/p>\n

We don’t have this here in the U.S., as Al Gore’s supporters know to their peril.<\/p>\n

And as creaky and Rube-Goldbergesque as our multitiered republic may be, it seems to have worked pretty well, in defending varied and conflicting interests.<\/p>\n

Any reason why that would be a bad idea over there?<\/p>\n

And can anyone point me to the nitty-gritty of what’s being proposed – past the Guardian and CNN stories?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot of pressure for us to quickly implement direct democracy over in Iraq. While I’ll qualify this by noting that I haven’t read the details of the proposals, I’ll toss out one quick question, assuming that it means what it sounds like – a direct national vote for a legislative and possibly executive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}