tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post3897903002152115215..comments2024-03-29T01:07:30.224-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: "There Is No Arab Spring"Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-63037486566171205532011-10-06T09:55:47.192-07:002011-10-06T09:55:47.192-07:00Thank you for this post, really effective piece of...Thank you for this post, really effective piece of writing.muebles fuenlabradahttp://www.muebles-en-fuenlabrada.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-7330583981908946962011-08-19T11:10:07.747-07:002011-08-19T11:10:07.747-07:00Pretty effective info, thanks so much for this art...Pretty effective info, thanks so much for this article.sexshoptienda.nethttp://sexshoptienda.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-85663405659528116302011-05-24T12:48:33.202-07:002011-05-24T12:48:33.202-07:00This is a terrific idea. It's an interesting w...This is a terrific idea. It's an interesting way of avoiding the faults that lie in the notion of career legislators. And also of rule by lawyers. It would work against factional and tribal voting patterns. <br /><br />As you know, the American government did not start as a fully democratic system, but as a representative republic.<br /><br />Clearly enough, if everyone votes in these countries the winners are going to be the best organized groups, and that often means the Islamists.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-76407285901813338632011-05-24T10:09:17.069-07:002011-05-24T10:09:17.069-07:00One simple way to foster real democratic governmen...One simple way to foster real democratic governments in the Muslim world would be to promote a system whereby parliamentary representatives are determined by random selection not election—similar to the procedures of the originators of democratic government, the ancient Athenians.<br />One advantage of selecting representatives by lot is that, generally, the parliaments will be far more truly representative of the composition of society: if 1% of the population were lawyers, then about 1% of parliamentarians would be lawyers, not 50%; but the chief advantage of selecting representatives by lot, for the Islamic world, is that the method would be so clearly a genuine way of procuring divine blessing for, assuredly, supposedly random events are not actually random but occur only by the sanction of the merciful Allah.<br />My support for regular random—or, for Muslims, <i>divine</i>—selection of candidates, instead of periodic elections, is based on the assumption that government would be more democratic if people had a continual involvement in legislative and administrative matters, and withal a far better chance of directly participating therein, rather than merely having a say in the constitution of assemblies every four years or so.Deadmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05012725254441170657noreply@blogger.com