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I remembered an old conversation I'd had on this topic and looked it up to see what points had been made. Interestingly, I find that I took up a roughly opposite position that time: The tyranny of the majority is good, distortion of the majority is bad, and the goal of elections ought to be to fairly represent the interests of the people as well as possible. But this is because I was arguing against a more direct elector system then, rather than against a direct popular vote. On the whole, I find I don't necessarily disagree with anything I said on either this post or that one.

It was an interesting conversation, either way. It's on the LJ of the friend who went to the Arcade Fire show with me: http://freeradical42.livejournal.com/73077.html