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On 07/15/09 09:19, Warp wrote:
> John VanSickle<evi### [at] hotmail com> wrote:
>> What many find troublesome, however, is that 99% of black Americans who
>> voted did so for Obama, but the press made nothing of it. If 99% of
>> whites had voted for McCain, the press would be bawling about white
>> America's racism.
>
> IMO democracy is a failure when people don't vote for someone who has
> the same *political* opinions, but for other irrelevant reasons.
Unfortunately, democracy is not "self-correcting". There's nothing in
the framework of democracy to prevent or even discourage this.
In other words, it's not democracy gone wrong.
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