(March 18, 2011 at 4:06 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: Lobbying, from what I have seen, means the importance is no longer on the benefit of the people. Money from outside causes, in short, gets in the way of a pure and working democracy by. It creates corruption.
A pure democracy exists somewhere between superstition, anarchy and stagnation and would in anycase degenerate into a dictatorship of the demogague. A dose of democracy is best seen as an antidote to certain types of dictatorship, not as a pure ideal to be sought after in itself.