[HartleyMBaldwin]

What I don’t find in this column is what Mr. Stossel thinks would be better than democracy, and why.

[Graybeard58]

~~~What I don’t find in this column is what Mr. Stossel thinks would be better than democracy, and why.~~~

Maybe the representative republic system, which we are supposed to have already. Not democracy.

[Alberta's Child]

The dirty little secret here is that the form of government doesn't matter in a nation as long as the rights of its citizens are respected.

It's very possible that the last 100 years will be remembered as the beginning of the collapse of a grand experiment -- representative government -- that may be completely incompatible with the human condition.

The Mel Gibson character from The Patriot (Benjamin Martin) summed it up perfectly: "Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man's rights as easily as a king can."