my brain is so addled, while peering manically at articles online, i saw King John II as Kim Jong Il. Who was, apparently, one of the first modern inaugurators of democracy. Which obviously totally fits the profile of Dear Leader Kim.

i dunno what's the big deal about democracy. i mean, it good; but it's not fantastic. and according to aristotle it's a corrupted regime - albeit the best of all the lousy regimes a state could have. limited democracy is good but ideal liberal democracy is impossible, and frankly doesn't really exist. and it's not so useful for every country. if every single bill and law and policy had to be subjected to a referendum things would move so much slower. and how to have representative democracy when a hundred people think in twenty different ways? who are you supposed to represent then? you can't say follow the majority cos you're ideally supposed to protect the minority simple cos they're, minor.

ok but i really shouldn't be here; i should go engage in logorrhea (yeah, aquila and the beee!) elsewhere - like on my term paper. true democracy would be to allow us to vote to bar lecturers from assigning tests and papers and presentations in too close a proximity to each other, and giving students the opportunity to defer deadlines, much like how one defers ns. liberty! equality! fraternity!