bitcoin as a global medium of exchange (was Re: Interesting take on Sanjuro's Assassination Market)

[Juan Garofalo]

> 
> 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 at 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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