In his letter to the editor, Stephen McAlister writes: "What’s at stake here is the integrity of a New England town meeting, the most direct form of democracy on the planet."
Does the cult of majority rule, as Tocqueville might well have called it, not leave us in a sort of philosopher’s dystopia in which no question can actually be discussed on its merits, according to the criterion of right and wrong, when policy is nothing more than the formulation of poll-findings?
To an historian, all the money spent during campaigns seems silly. Millions, perhaps billions, are spent to present the same opposing positions in almost the same words fighting with the same tactics.
