Democracy: too good for some.

Gerard Baker makes an interesting observation today in the Australian.

"DEMOCRACY, Winston Churchill famously observed, is the worst form of government ever devised - except for all the others. Well, he was right about the first part."

In other words, Democracy, 'is the worst form of government ever devised' end of discussion.It's hard really to disagree with him on that point. Democracy is giving the Republicans a hammering at the moment for their patriotic attempts to win the war on terror. Not long ago, in their first democratic election Palestinians elected Hamas, and the US quickly, and rightly refused to deal with the new government.

Look what else democracy has done for us. Whitlam and free education, Keating and the, 'recession we had to have', and possibly soon Rudd and the resurgence of the unions. Heaven help us, and I'm a Christian so I really mean it when I write that.

Democracy is fine when people vote the right way, but what about when they don't? Yesterday I had a bit of time to watch a group of young people outside a bar in the CBD and the thought suddenly occurred to me, 'my goodness, these people can vote'.

And this is where so many, including Baker get it wrong, it isn't democracy that fails but that anyone can take part in it. Some of you might suggest that this is the whole point of democracy but it certainly is not, it is a relatively new addition to democracy.

If a person is obviously too stupid to know what they are voting for then why on earth should we be expected to endure the governments they elect? They will always have Big Brother to vote on, unless we manage to get it banned, they would be happy. It isn't right to expect them to vote for both Big Brother and the federal election anyway, too stressful.

Cats are useful too ok. Sheesh.

Was reading An Onymous Lefty this evening and noticed an update to his post on jumping cats. Apparently some, 'crackpot' has written a post on another blog, 'attacking' him for… hold on, he's talking about me.

I invite Jeremy to read the post again, carefully before he jumps to conclusions. I think I make some really good points.

The wife is very upset with me for attacking Jeremy, apparently she thinks he is quite witty and well informed, I didn't even know she knew how to use the computer. She reminded me during tonight's episode that if it wasn't for Jeremy I would have been taking notes on offensive behaviour while watching Big Brother instead of the quality television show Life on Mars.

Look, different strokes and all. But if I want to ever sleep in the bed next to my wife's bed again I have to bear in mind that everyone is entitled to their opinion.

Anyway, all going well, I'm off to bed, I'll be posting some photos of my family in the next few days so I encourage any remaining readers out there to pop back in to find out more about me.

Also, if you arrived her via a link from An Onymous Lefty then a big hello to you and thanks for popping by. If you want to read some really riveting stuff then I suggest you make a detour for Tim Blair's insightful blog until next I post. I should be posting some praising material on Tim Blair shortly too.