If God made a mistake would he tell us?

What proportion of the population vote in the US ? I am not sure that you should call the US a democracy. In Australia over 98% of the population vote! It should be 100% otherwise its not a democracy. Why ? because of over representation of minority groups eg. gun lobby.

Should we put our faith in an intellectual elite then, no, compulsory voting forces people to confront the issues. It makes everyone responsible. It’s not perfect but its better than letting people opt out. I think you will find that even the uneducated have an opinion to cast at election time, even if it is only the tax on beer! The informed voter in the US is just a voter who has got up off their ass. That doesn’t mean they are responsible voters.I don’t know the statistics, but I would be interested to see what the representation of voters is across socio-economic classes in the US.[This message has been edited by Autocatalysis, 06-27-2003]