Saying "democracy doesn't work" is meaningless.
That is because the term "democracy" itself is meanignless.
Democracy means, in
ideal, "rule by the governed".
See? "rule by the governed" is a contradiction in terms.
If your examples don't fit that criteria,
they're not really democracies, just as the USSR wasn't really socialism,
England isn't really monarchism, and The Republic of Ireland (not
currently concerning itself with matters of the res publica/ public
interest) isn't really a Republic.
"James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
On 2013-11-27 10:26, Al Billings wrote:
If democracy doesn't work, what are people suggesting? Is this when
the
Libertarian masks come off?
Monarchy, anarcho capitalism, anarcho piratism, military dictatorship.
Or perhaps a republic with the franchise limited to property owning
heads of households with good credit records.
Observe that police in wealthy neighborhoods are much better than
police
in poor neighborhoods. Do you think that is the result of voting?
You presumably agree that
the people's popular democracies were not all
that democratic, because they made sure that everyone voted communist,
and a party member always got elected, and it did not matter who got
elected anyway since actual decisions were made elsewhere.
Well that is pretty much the system we have in the western democracies.
The actual decisions are made by the permanent and fireproof
bureaucracy. If the elections come out wrong, they ignore the result
and
work to make sure the next elections come out right.
Brainwashing in school, population replacement, and if that does not
work, the permanent and unelected government just ignores the outcome
of
the vote, as for example the various votes on affirmative action and
immigration.
One demotic regime, turns out in practice to be remarkably similar to
another demotic regime.
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