Originally Posted by jibber

because the whole point of a democratic system is for the people of a nation to collectively decide who they want as a leader, with the majority winning. of course no one leader will make everyone happy, that's what democracy is for. otherwise we would have a communist system with a leader/leaders who decide amongst themselves what is good for everyone, without the consensus of the population, which could ultimately lead to a dictatorship, in the case of stalin. oh, and i saw a post earlier about how it was pointless to learn to history of another country. Personally, i can't think of anything learnt in high school thats more useful. major political events and revlutions aren't isolated to individual nations. by learning about the course of history in other nations (which effects the entire world) we understand why the world is the way it is, and how the political climate in the world today came into effect. I could go on and give a lot of examples, but i'm not in the mood at the moment.