Strypey on Nostr: "Real democracy is one person, one vote, one opportunity to submit ..." ...

"Real democracy is one person, one vote, one opportunity to submit ..."

#DavidSeymour, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=6d064b47-5ac2-450f-9a12-c0ab983e5df5

No Rimmer. The core idea of democracy is that government can only be legitimate with the full, informed, and *ongoing* consent of the governed.

As Thomas Jefferson put it;

"... to secure [our] rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/jefferson-on-the-right-to-change-one-s-government-1776

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