Would it make sense?

What you are suggesting is a direct democracy. Whether you have democracy in general or a direct democracy the majority will oppress the minority.
Collectivisms bad m`kay.

 

Do you mean abolishing the electoral college?

That'll never happen. Our founding fathers wanted to make sure that the country (and the money) stays in the hands of rich white people. Even with Obama in office, it's the rich white people laughing all the way to the bank.

Yeah, I think it would be good to directly elect the president, and even better if we were given more referendums (there is probably a plural for that but idk), but it probably won't happen.

 

Ancient Greece had a direct democracy if I'm not mistaken. I don't really remember how that worked out for them. But for it to function well, there would have to be an attentive and aware public, as well as a Bill of Rights or the like to protect the minority from the majority in their basic civil rights.

The American populace is the exact opposite of attentive and aware, for the most part. They'd rather vote for American Idol than a president.

 

sure it was called a democracy, but you had to be a rich male land owner to vote, no women or darker skinned people need apply.

 

"The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that -- however bloody -- can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave."

"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."

- Lysander Spooner


"Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party. Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

-James Madison

"Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else."

-Hans-Herman Hoppe



 

 

Just an FYI American isn't a Democracy, that word doesn't appear in the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence or Constitution. So I was curious to what makes you think we have a Democracy?

Personally I beleive that so many Americans believe we are a Democracy as a propaganda tool. The Gov. spouts "we must spread Democracy" ppl think there for we are a Democracy now the MSM will insert an opinion poll showing 51% or more favor war or what ever BS agenda they want to push. The Average Joe thinks "well if thats what the majority wants then thats what we must do". Bypass Constitution and label all who bitch a terrorist. I know its a bit out there but logically it makes sense from a psychological perspective.

 

I'm proud of my fellow free market individualist independent thinking cybernet replies to the choice of mob rule / democracy. They like all forms of state are evil.