What an Athenian Would Think of our Present Day Democracy

First off, I want to say that I think there would be different reactions for the different kinds of people that saw our present day democracy. These different people I am mainly refering to are leaders and commoners. These two peoples would have quite a different experience and out take the the whole situation. The leader being one of these first revolutionarys in democray would understand and why everyone gets to vote. they would most likely understand that there was a progresion of rights leading up to that, similar to their new democracy granting commoners a say. Where as a commoner would more likely be apauled to see some of the people voting, and not see the value in giving everyone a say, no matter how small. However they would probably both disagree with our indirect way of presidential elections with the electoral colledge, and representatives making our decisions. they would probably agree that our government is more fair and just than the other countries around us although the problems they have might be reconsidered as they should in their minds because some of these things have to work with indirect democracy because of the much greater size of our country.