Much was made on Thursday by the Republic Party that the majority of Americans dislike the Health Care Reform Bill approved by both the Senate and the House. The President noted that when asked, the public approved of the individual parts of the bills by an overwhelming majority. What the Republic Party said is essentially true as well as what the President said, if you base your vote on polls rather than by what is right. The one thing the Republic folks failed to mention and my to my chagrin, neither did the Democrats, that the VAST majority of the American people favour a public option, which the Republic Party will never agree to, ever.
My friends, this is a representative democracy. We elect our lawmakers to promulgate bills and laws in the interests of us all. We surrender our perceived right to have direct voting by the public on national issues. Think of it this way, if the American people had a direct vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do you really think that it would have been approved by the American people? No it would not have. The idea of having a representative democracy is to ensure that in most cases, the government will do the right thing, even if it is not popular or approved by the majority of the population.
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