A Quick Update

We haven't posted anything in a month and a half, but we're still here.

Here's a quick thought that's been running through my head:

I have a little saying that I've been using recently. I'm not sure where I got it, but I doubt I'm this creative. It goes like this: Democracy means sometimes you lose.

My point in using it is to suggest that we have to separate out our lower level politics from our high level politics. If we are truly democrats, as I think most Americans are, we have to accept that good democratic process will sometimes produce political outcomes that we disagree with--and that our personal political ends are not always realized is not a fault of democracy, but rather one of its strengths.

But if we take the statement a bit more seriously for a moment, what does it tell us about, say, institutional design? Does it imply that we ought to design institutions such that the losers in normal politics find their loss acceptable? Would it require some form of supermajoritarianism for all issues?

hmmm.