democracy

I love this quote from Suzahna’s blog (http://sliceoforange.blogspot.com/)

"Thus the question can be posed as the following bottom line: is democracy possible at all? Thus if you try to distill this problem to its most profound essence: is it possible to break this vicious circle? Is it possible to save a 'cursed land?' Is the embodiment of human expectations possible? Is the victory of good over evil possible?” -Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian poet, prose writer, essayist, Delivered to the European Parliament, Strasbourg, France, December 15, 2004

in part because I do not think democracy is possible at a national scale. See Robert Putnam (_Making Democracy Work_, etc.)