The Holy Grail of Democracy

[DanaC]

I feel I should clarify my earlier posts in this thread a little. What the US has at the moment is the worst possible outcome of the kind of thing I'm talking about, a group of individuals associated purely by wealth engaged in a giant circle jerk (consider who's involved, it's best not to visualize that).

Goddamn it Jaguar I was eating!

Catwoman, no fear not I am not a Daily Mail reader...more a Guardian / other people's copies of the Mirror type

I know the experiment cant really be held up as a resounding success but doesnt the soviet premise sound like a decent stab at democracy? I mean the whole idea of Soviets, take it out of the context of the cold war, and just looking at the concept of local Soviets which then feed to a larger organisation which then feeds to another larger entity in such a way ensuring that tyhe least important floor sweeper is no longer unimportant in politics....That strikes me as deeply democratic...so why wasnt it embraced by the western world?