Resource: I don't Believe in Democracy

[Davino]

 

 

[Lyubov]

He doesn't believe in it because he lacks development 

[Leo Gura]

After Trump, I don't believe in it either.

[Staples]

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

Like an inverse bell curve, the dummies and elites 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.

[Twentyfirst]

You should get a job scrubbing the toilets at Amazon headquarters. They will let you decide the future of the company, money management, marketing, supply chain, hiring/firing and how to handle competition. Democracy makes total sense because people who scrub the toilets SHOULD be able to have a say in how trillion dollar global companies with hundreds of thousands of employees are ran

If there is a hope for democracy it needs to be something like for every child you have you get an extra vote. People with children are more concerned about the future instead of selfishly thinking short term for their own gratification. It's not perfect but I think it's better. Or something like only people willing to fight in war should be able to vote

Democracy is sketchy because if I topple a government and replace it with democracy all I have to do is use the media to brainwash people to vote how I want them to while also gaining their approval 

Side topic: I wish a country couldn't go to war unless the president and his sons did some form of combat to make sure it's actually a necessary war 

Edited Saturday at 04:15 AM by Twentyfirst

[Buck Edwards]

After the January 6 attack, it has been difficult to protect democracy, let alone question it's validity. 

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

3 hours ago, Staples said:

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

Really? And how do you think Hitler came to power?

[Staples]

20 minutes ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

Really? And how do you think Hitler came to power?

Touché.

Edited Saturday at 07:24 AM by Staples

[Davino]

 

[Lila9]

Democracy works for wise, rational, and educated masses, not for the ignorant.

Wise, rational, and educated people are those who have free choice because their perspective is higher, wider, and holistic, aiming for the greater good of society and humanity, not narrow, selfish, self-centered, self-serving, or ideological.

The ignorant masses are heavily manipulated by politicians to serve their interests.

Allowing the ignorant to vote is like allowing a toddler to drive a car.

The masses may remain ignorant because of genetic limitations or more likely, because it serves the elites. The elites have no incentive to encourage rational and wise living among the masses, as such people would challenge their power and authority.

 

 

 

 

[PurpleTree]

I believe in it in certain countries in Europe.

the US always had a weird two party system.

[Basman]

Trump:

[Pox]

9 hours ago, Twentyfirst said:

 

If there is a hope for democracy it needs to be something like for every child you have you get an extra vote. People with children are more concerned about the future instead of selfishly thinking short term for their own gratification. 

then ppl will make more children for the sake of having more votes...

[zazen]

 

First 2 min of this video:

''America isn't a democracy; America is an oligarchy. It's a plutocracy, ruled by the rich, of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. Democracy in America is just a smokescreen, a charade that they perform every election cycle to pacify you and make you believe that you have some stake in the system.

But look at the reality. For roughly the first 100 years of American so-called democracy, only white male property owners could vote. The so-called "land of the free" was built on the exclusion of the vast majority of its people from the democratic process. This gradually expanded to include all white males and then, theoretically, black males—but not in practice. Eventually, they had to grant the vote to women and Native Americans. Imagine that the indigenous people of that land were the last to be given the right to vote. What kind of democracy is that? They never wanted power in the hands of the people.

As the franchise of voting expanded to include those who were not white male property owners, the real power moved further away from the democratic process. They dangled the right to vote in front of you to make you think that you're a participant in power, but they kept the real power in the hands of the wealthy elite, increasingly so over the years. As the right to vote expanded, the relevance of the vote contracted. No one ever intended for power to be in the hands of the people, and it never has been.

Just look at how money controls politics in America today. The Supreme Court's decision on the Citizens United case opened the floodgates for corporate money in elections. Billionaires and corporations pour millions and millions of dollars into political campaigns, drowning out the voices of ordinary people and the entire electorate. They're hiring candidates, writing laws, and purchasing policies that serve their interests.

Is this democracy? No, this is oligarchy. When a handful of wealthy individuals can dictate policy and sway elections, obvious democracy doesn't exist. Politicians simply do a tour of duty in government to prove their loyalty to their funders before moving to highly paid positions in the private sector, working for the same people they worked for all along.''

Edited Saturday at 06:04 PM by zazen

[Husseinisdoingfine]

U.G. is right. We should have a one-party Marxist-Leninist socialist with Chinese characteristics Government where the Politburo decides our leaders for us. 

[zazen]

@Husseinisdoingfine Perhaps Comrade.

Edited yesterday at 12:13 AM by zazen

[PurpleTree]

8 hours ago, zazen said:

@Husseinisdoingfine Perhaps Comrade.

And everybody who speaks against the govt or gets a bit out of line is disappeared. Artists have to flee the country or get jailed because real art is stifled. It’s awesome that a few old men can decide all this.

Edited 22 hours ago by PurpleTree