Weirdo political ideas...

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

mkennedy, we are polar opposites on this issue, which is okay.  I happen to believe rather strongly that too much regulation, too much bureacracy, and too many special interests are the problem, not too little. 

The bigger government gets, the smaller people get.

Edit:  There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about this topic in March:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120658041972567361.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

Greenspan, of course, blames everything on too much faith in the system because he's the one that put America on the money printing road to bankruptcy.  It's especially odd when you take into account Greenspan's distant past as a champion of the constitution, free markets, and at one point he even warned against fiat currencies.

[Montague]

To summarize: I think it's clear that the main benefit of democracy is that two equally stupid ideas (for instance, communism and laissez-faire capitalism) cancel each other out.