Behind the Orange Curtain

If you know me well, then you would know that I like to, once in a while, read letters to the editors for the Orange County Register. OC is highly conservative, but a lot of these letter writers are not only conservative, they're irrational. Here's a letter that's commenting on the Alito confirmation hearings and the overall tendency of the Senate committee to talk more than necessary:

Representational democracy has never been the most effective form of governing. It is by its nature messy, slow and filled with partisanship.

Until we come to the conclusion that we as a people don't need representatives and political parties and move towards a direct democracy, we will be stuck with senators striking poses for their constituencies in support of the party's platform. So I say "let's get ready to rumble." Democracy works best not when we agree but when we disagree.

Pete Alberini
La Mirada

Really? We should have direct democracy where citizens would be burdened with hours of legislative agenda and voting every single say? Way to go, Pete Alberini. You just made a fool out of yourself.