User blog comment:Bondpedia/Important Bureacrat News/@comment-28584497-20131203170925/@comment-399051-20131203180918

So did Western democracy originally. All democracy is dominated by those who are best at it and Athens' downfall at the hands of the Alexander's Macedonians was inevitable whatever system they had.

What percentage of Congress today is women? I know in the British Parliament, out of 600+ MPs, the number of women is still only in double figures. It's a similar situation with ethnic minorities. How representative are a bunch of rich, elderly, white men?

Anyway, this is away from the point...