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.