Too many laws, too many prisoners

Re:Too many laws, too many prisoners by dieterrams on Friday July 23, 2010 @06:35PM (#1542598)

Upvoted. However, a different political system would itself necessitate a cultural shift.

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Re:Too many laws, too many prisoners by ugh on Friday July 23, 2010 @07:29PM (#1542699)

Sure. I was being facetious. Lowering incarceration rates in the US is probably a hard problem which would need all kinds of shifts.

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Re:Too many laws, too many prisoners by patrickaljord on Friday July 23, 2010 @10:02PM (#1542894)

If "direct democracy" was so powerful, how come they keep making laws against p2p or legalization of weed given that most people are against those laws?

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Re:Too many laws, too many prisoners by Qz on Saturday July 24, 2010 @12:21PM (#1543918)

"direct democracy" is really the wrong term. The US has a representative democracy, where the people generally don't vote on laws, but rather vote for politicians who vote for laws. Germany has a similar system, except according to the other poster, people vote more for political parties rather than individual politicians. You could say that the US has more "direct representationalism". In reality, representative democracy is about as undemocratic as a democracy can get.

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Re:Too many laws, too many prisoners by Ardit20 on Saturday July 24, 2010 @08:23AM (#1543531)

I do not think most people are in favour of legalizing weed if by most people you mean the general population and not the teenagers.

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