52% of respondents believe all U.S. soldiers should withdraw from Iraq

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The establishment turns their noses up at the American people because they think they're better than us.

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Thank goodness this country isn't run by people who respond to polls.

Shut up, you elitist prude.

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They're not necessarily exclusive.

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They're not necessarily exclusive.

Fair enough.

My personal opinion is that direct democracy (as opposed to a republic) is a dangerous system of government. Public opinion changes very often and very unpredictably. Were this country governed on the basis of polls, there would be utter chaos in its policies.

That is true. I modified my post to show that I was joking. But conservatives do like to complain all the time how liberals are so elitist when the ignore the fact that public opinion is as often as not against them.

Also, republicans have an annoying, almost obsessive tendency to insist on the term "republic" being used, while either republic OR representative democracy, one of two main types of democracy, would be technically correct. I can only think it has something to do with their party being called the Republican party. Whatever, if semantics matter that much to them so be it, but it's technically correct either way.