Medians (was Re: [EM] Absolute Utilities)

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Mr. Simmons wrote-

I should have defined "democratic" .  

My conception of democracy is what Noam Chomsky describes as a "society
in which a decent person would want to live."

In such a society, there would be lower priority for advancing the rich
(in utility) to ever greater hights, and more effort would be focused on
raising the utility poor to acceptable levels (more compared to our
current corporate dominated priorities).
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D- This list is about election methods -- NOT socialist ideology --- lots of 
other lists discuss s.i.