Probably because the comment didn't contribute to the discussion at hand and had a high troll potential. It's unfortunate that the author decided to throw that comment into the article because it is naive sounding and seems quite out of place there as well.

I suppose it doesn't open up much possibility for discussion afterward, but I wasn't intending to troll. I just think we need to remember that we don't have to imagine some undemocratic international threat to understand why these issues are important.

I think it does strongly resemble a democracy. This reflects quite poorly on (my fellow) Americans.

Now, you could go with a proportional representation system instead of a winner-in-each-district-takes-all system, but you know who the two big parties with the power would be? The same two.

The make the decision making process democratic, i.e not depending on just the two major parties. Also lose the 'president' father figure -- just keep the few hundred elected guys.

Yeah, it's not like we'd be surprised to find out that the NSA, for example, asked hardware manufacturers to include a backdoor for government use.

Wouldn't be the first time: http://www.austinlinks.com/Crypto/non-tech.html