Electing one Government for all policies is undemocratic

In democratic countries, citizens have the privilege of electing representatives once for every four/five years. In each electoral period, the representatives get to make decisions for the people in every aspect of society from gun laws to abortion, war, civil rights, taxes and so on. People don't elect different representative for each issue.

In such a system, an individual might have to compromise on an issue just because he cares more about some other issue. This can lead to a situation where people have to live by certain rules which only minority of people agree on. Let's take an example to demonstrate this.

Majority of people in US want next Govt to pull out of Iraq. Majority of people also dont want to tax rates to go up. Political parties stands for one or the other, but not both. If people care more about the war, then they end up with a Government with higher taxes. If people care more about taxes, they end up with the country's army continuing to operate in Iraq. Asking people to make such a choice is undemocratic.

People are forced to elect representatives who stand against some of their ideologies. That's why electing one Government for policy making in every sector is undemocratic.

This begs the question.. What's democracy anyways?

Oil exploration, liberals and the poor

Democrats yet again blocked oil exploration in US coast and Alaska on environmental concerns.

Who really benefits from coastal oil exploration? Oil exploration leads to increased production of oil which in turn brings down the price of Oil. Poor people suffer more from higher oil prices than the rich people. Rich people can easily afford oil at $5 per gallon. Poor people, who make $10 or less per hour, can't afford to drive at such high prices of oil.

Ask a poor person if he prefers $5 per gallon Oil (or) the risk of exaggerated environmental concerns from oil exploration. He would obviously prefer more oil exploration.

It's a paradox that Democrats claim themselves to be champions of poor. Democrats want to keep the air clean around them, even if it adversely affects the poor people.