I'm referring to his idea that a perfect legislature could be formed if there was a way to make the representatives forget who they were while they were debating and voting. Then they'd have no choice but to vote for the common interest and not their own.
What would happen if Senate votes weren't made public? It would decrease accountability of senators to constituents, sure, but would it also decrease the power of special interest groups?
Another way to fix this would be to make legalized bribery (the current US lobby system)... illegal.
That sounds like John Rawls 'veil of ignorance'. Are you sure it was in Plato?
No, it was not Plato. They are mentioned together in so many places, I had them mixed up. Plato is not about Democracy. It's Rawls.
But Plato is, actually, relevant to our site. The cave analogy is a perfect description of how we see current social discussion- people understand themselves and others by interacting with mere "shadows" that are not very substantive. Facebook lets you know who you're talking to, but profiles are often more about what that person wants to be seen as than about who he actually is.
Our goal, conversely, is to let people strip away the superficial and discuss their real opinions in an unadulterated form.