Resource: I don't Believe in Democracy

[Elliott]

On 1/24/2025 at 11:00 PM, Staples said:

Agreed. Democracy worked brilliantly until the internet and social media emerged. 

Like an inverse bell curve, the dummies and elitesI consolidated too much power and the reasonable people in the middle suffered.

A dummy with a vote has more impact than a reasonable person with a vote.

I think you're looking at history through rose colored glasses, just look at the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, westward expansion of the U.S.. There's really nothing new going on, Democracy is messy, society is messy, look at the anti-communist propaganda and laws in the U.S. back in the 50s, the Kent State massacre. It's like when teenagers do stupid things because they're struggling to understand the world.

 

Democracy doesn't compensate for the lack of ethics in the society, obviously, but just like letting a teenager experiment and have freedom society will make mistakes in the process of learning. This angst I'm reading from you all seems to come down to believing an embellished version of recent history, and possibly some naivety toward Republican sincerity with their beliefs. The U.S. has for the most part been a bit wild with just short periods of calm like we in our generations have experienced, something I attribute in part to Democracy, I mean look back just before Democracy, you have the Dark Ages.

 

Democracy seems to have worked so well that many people now dissociate with their culture's not too distant past of savagery.

Edited February 5 by Elliott

[Lucasxp64]

 

[Husseinisdoingfine]

Serious question, after the election of Trump, doesn't this prove that China has the superior political system?

We elected Trump, they have Xi Jingping. Choose your fighter. 

Our Government is basically a one party capitalist dictatorship, where the capitalist class have two bourgeiois parties representing them. Their Government is the one-party dictatorship of the proletariat, on track to build socialism with Chinese characteristics. 

Edited February 5 by Husseinisdoingfine

[Elliott]

16 minutes ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

Serious question, after the election of Trump, doesn't this prove that China has the superior political system?

We elected Trump, they have Xi Jingping. Choose your fighter. 

To take over the world, for sure. Not for improving the lives of the people though, where would you want to live?