direct democracy is the only way

[Thorne]

I wonder if it is a worse problem than politicians who also, quite often, know precious little about what they vote about, even very important things.

Politicians generally have staffers who study the problems and, theoretically, steer the politician in the right direction.

HA! Are you suggesting that politicians are completely moral about how they vote??

Of course they are! They accept the money from the business that wants them to vote a certain way and that's how they vote! Anything else would be immoral!

Anyway, as I see it it is not about being moral, but about having influence on your life.

It seems more about having influence on everyone else's life. "You have to do it this way because we're the majority and this is the way we say it has to be done, so there."

Well, supposedly the muslims would vote for it ;-)

Assuming that the "moral" majority would allow them to vote at all.