Do you like the system of democracy, why, why not?

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WhiteSteve · Accepted Answer

You know, it sounds good when you say it, “one citizen, one vote”….. but have you seen the average citizen? Have you seen the BELOW-average citizen? YIKES, lmao. Collectively, we’re very frighteningly dumb/ignorant/misinformed/disinformed….. but almost everyone seems SUPREMELY confident that they know everything and know best. We can say what we want about politicians, but we’re the ones who elect them. They tell us what we want to hear so we’ll like them and elect them. Not for nothing, but every time we hear about a politician who “doesn’t just tell you what you want to hear” or “tells it like it is and pulls no punches”…. the people cheering for it aren’t the ones being told what they need to hear, they’re celebrating the idea that other people they don’t like are being told shit. Nobody wants a politician who forces you to look in the mirror and check yourself, lmfao, most people aren’t in touch with themselves enough to embrace something like that. They want to hear that their problems in life aren’t their own doing or underachievement, but rather to be blamed on someone else for holding you back or taking your deserved slice of the pie. Grievance politics sells like crazy these days, and has for a long time.

Honestly, the best system would be some sort of benevolent oligarchy…. just the problem comes when you hope powerful people will remain honest despite being unchecked. Not sure how we reliably do that, so again, you look to democracy. But my faith in the intelligence of the general population isn’t really there. I wish we could live under the global watch of some council of very wise people who prioritize kindness and decency, but that’s probably pie in the sky. It feels like the only possible options for an organized society that’s at all pleasant to live in is a monarchy/oligarchy where we aren’t really saddled with the societally divisive decision-making on decision-makers, but run the risk that the decision-maker (s) could be malevolent and not have the people’s best interests in mind; or you have democracy, where the people control the comings and goings of the decision-makers, but the people very well may be idiots on the whole, and want and successfully influence policy-making on things that make some individuals happy but aren’t necessarily good or correct, either for everyone, or just at all. If enough people want to make drunk driving legal for selfish purposes, there’s a conceivable path to getting it legalized. That’s just a quick example, most of us agree drunk driving is harmful to society at large, but I’m just saying that not everything that the people might call for us a good idea.

I also don’t really like the idea of “majority rule.” You can’t just be like “everyone vote out of self-interest, and whoever has the most common shared self-interest, probably largely influenced by any number of demographic factors, will be satisfied, and everyone else who just happens to feel differently can either move or kick rocks.” And again, I just don’t trust people to vote for societal needs over individual needs.

Democracy is probably the safest bet in terms of avoiding an evil dictatorship, but it’s managed by Joe Q. Public, who is an absolute jabroni who I couldn’t trust to get my pizza order right, let alone elect proper leadership. So it’s gonna be pretty jacked up, most likely, lmao.

Forceinhand · Accepted Answer

The parliamentary system in my country is fundamentally good. Could use a few tweaks however (examples include a restored greater role for the Monarchy and better criteria for public offices) to counter the truly infuriating parts of democracy, such as its tendency towards idiocracy. I don't believe that literally everyone regardless of merit or absence of should decide on a nation's future. I am a believer in a meritocratic reality which some people interpret as elitism. I remember reading somewhere, an article if I recall, that convicts ought to have voting rights. Sure, let's allow those who want nothing but harm for society, rule it. As I said, idiocracy.

I do believe everyone desverves the *opportunity* to be included in ruling the country. But that's not the same as the *right* to rule regardless of your capacity. The latter unfortunately permeates democracy today.

OldBlue · Accepted Answer

No, it’s horrible.

Our system probably made perfect sense a couple hundred years ago.

The first thing we should do is come up with a modern voting system. There’s no reason why you should have to leave your living room in order to vote. And mail-in ballots are ripe with corruption.

Voting should be done via a smart device. (Like a tablet or smartphone )

In order to vote, you must be registered, and then download the voting app.

You will login with your name, Social Security number, fingerprint scan, facial recognition scan, pin number, password, and be able to answer the three secret questions you decided on when you registered.

You will have a 48 hour window to vote and then that’s it. At the end of the 48 hours the results of the elections will be shown.

It shouldn’t take three months to figure out who won.

If you don’t have a smart device, you will have to go down to the polling station and they will have smart devices you can use.

They will no longer be a lame excuse that proving who you are in order to vote is racist.

Everyone votes in the primary at the same time. Iowa and New Hampshire no longer go first. You have 48 hours to vote in the primary and then it’s over.
Laws.

A representative republic sounds nice, but it doesn’t seem to be working. I believe that the Covid American rescue plan was $1 trillion. Americans got 10% of that. How did our representative republic represent us on that? Does the average voter only want 10%? Does the average voter really want millions of our Covid dollars to go to Pakistan for gender studies? How about millions of dollars to renovate Carnegie Hall? Where was our representative republic on that? I want the American taxpayers to do lots more referendum votes. The first thing will be voting on is term limits for politicians.

Chandelier8 · Accepted Answer

The only problem with a democracy, that I have, is when the overall population is low IQ. It's still the best system though.

Cice137 · Answer

We started out with a constitutional republic. Before "the separation of church and state" which was coined by Jefferson to the 1803 Danbury Baptist convention in Danbury, Connecticut where he said that its not governments job to influence the church, but it is the responsibility of the church to influence the state.

Today its twisted to say "don't have after school bible study; but after school Satan programs are fine."

in the Federalist papers they hated democracy. At this point "for our democracy," really just sounds like its saying "we can't afford to lose our control over you so continue to vote for us so we can guarantee your destruction by praying to whatever pagan deity we see fit, and taking bribes from outsiders to sell your future out."

Ricky Gervais had fun making fun of these kinds of sick people at the one roasting of the awards show, look it up.

Exterminatore · Answer

No because idiots have a say and can then outvote rationality.

However our republic might even be worse. In our republic our senators and representatives are supposed to be representing the will of the people. Instead they represent the will of lobbyists and the billionaire class who give them “campaign contributions.” We live in an oligarchy not a republic.

AviatorTom · Answer

The USA is not a true democracy, it's a democratic republic, which is a reasonable implementation of a democracy. In a true democracy, everyone votes for everything, which is just no-doable when the population is more than a handful of people.

Joshydavid25 · Answer

No, not exactly.. Too many people aren't informed on who they are voting for and vote dictators into power.. Do we live in a Constitutional Republic here in the states where we vote and are represented by people..

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

Not just no but hell no.

gorydetails · Answer

Democracy? No. Democracy is tyranny. A Constitutional representative republic where the representatives are democratically elected is better.

Kelly6 · Answer

There are very few countries who have correct democracy system. and USA is not one of them.

soe11 · Answer

All delusionary election and con, doesn't mean anything thing.

HouseMoat · Answer

I like it, if it worked the way it's SUPPOSED to work

WhiteBoyChill · Answer

I’d rather have Trump be President indefinately, than hold elections every 4 years

exitseven · Answer

Yes, when it is run correctly

Anonymous · Answer

It's widely hypocritical

Anonymous · Answer

In an oligarchy there is no democracy

collie22 · Answer

I don't like the fat guy with the fake hair

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