I didn't say that buying votes with legislation was good, I said it's the premise of democracy. Whether democracy is good is an open question. For myself, I'm with Churchill:

> Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.