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Isn’t it the same thing? Doesn’t one lead to the other? Well not quite. No? Why not?
In an ideal democracy, we’d get to vote on everything wouldn’t we? We’d get to vote for tax levels, for local and national laws, for school boards, police chiefs etc. So far, so good?
If you live in a [...]

So Benazir Bhutto is the latest political victim in Pakistan.
Whilst I agree that her murder is a blow to any kind of democratic process in Pakistan, I don’t for a minute think she was a champion for democracy, and nor do my online Pakistani friends who live there.
They suspect it was the ISI, or [...]