Democracy works well when people with a vested economic stake in the future are voting about problems that they can comprehend, and easily understand the ramifications of. Creating compromises between informed parties with different goals.
When you expand participation and apply it to abstract problems it becomes anarchy because humans aren’t good at grokking that stuff individually and certainly not collectively.
aristotelian ethnicity democracy why we fight page 218
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They hate democracy because they hate their current life and they live in a democracy so they project their hatred onto the political system they live in and blame it for everything that's wrong.
I doubt when Churchill “democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried” he meant democracy by its self. Democracy is instead a short-hand for a secular representative democracy that enforces and defends the rights of the individual; limits the power of the state; educates its population; has a separation between the legislature, executive and judiciary; and limits the influence of powerful non-governmental entities (corporations). A dictatorship (sans the representative democracy) with these elements is a better form of state than a democracy without.
No western power practices these perfectly, especially limiting influence, but these are what make our systems work, not representative democracy by its self.
Democracy doesn't work when your Imam tells you who to vote for. It doesn't work when your population is too dumb to realise the lies of the person standing (Africa generally). It certainly doesn’t work when you bring in one or both of these groups and their numbers are large enough to swing elections.
>Because there's people who don't look like me and they can vote!
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Because Democracy is, by its nature, corrupt.
Compassionate dictatorships are the future.
Look at what Gadaffi did for Libya, he was the best thing to happen to the middle east until the democrats got their filthy fingers on him.
Except the germans, because of their bureaucracy. People who don't like bureaucracy only want to corrupt the system for their own benefit.
Because people are stupid and too easily manipulated to vote against all of our interest.
Democracy would be good if WE actually got a say....barring retards of course