JR Ball: The trouble with democracy in Baton Rouge

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Nobody said representative democracy was supposed to be easy. As political philosophies go, it’s—by design—a wonderfully messy, inefficient and slow-moving form of government. Its massive upside, in theory, is it demands the interests of those being governed trump those doing the governing. That all sounds fabulous and it’s what every child attending a semi-decent school

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