Why I hate Democracy (616 hits)
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Submitted by Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (View user info) at 2004-12-19 17:50:26 EST
Lets face it. Democracy blows. Its no way to go about leading a country. Granted, its more immune to corruption than any other presently existing form of government, but it just ends up being a competition of which candidate is willing to give up the most of their principals, and who is most capable of decieving the public, in exchange for votes.
Plato said it best. If you get an injury, do you see a doctor, or do go to the local Walmart, and take a survey using as many people as possiple on how it should be treated? Likewise why should everyday people, who don't know how to fix political problems, be deciding what's best for the country? This isn't elitism, its just common sense. You might argue that they are deciding who's best, not what's best, but since the candidates are so forced to kiss the asses of their voters, and those that don't could never win, they eventually do decide the policies.
Case in point: In the 2004 election, John Kerry suddenly takes a firm stance against Casto's regime in Cuba (http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0605a.html) blabbering on about the terrible oppressiveness of Fidel's regime. Coincidentally, it happens that many Cuban expatriots in the nearly 50-50 state of Florida shared this view. Now Cuba's regime is not the freest in the world, but its not the total dictatorship it's made out to be, and is better then other Latin American regimes the US has historically backed. The main reason it's so poor is that, as a result of it's use as a prop in political campaigns years after the Cold War, it continues being completely banned from trading with the wealthiest nation in the world.
And as a result of many cases like this, you get very intelligent people who have been elected by masses of idiots, because they somehow made the voters believe that going to war with a weak nation in order to gain control of a natural resourse is what Jesus would have done, and that the glorious US of A gives a genuine, heartfelt shit about the suffering of a few torture victems on the halfway around the globe.
The worst part is that in order to hold on to these precious voters in the future, politicians (who for the most part, probably aren't bothered with the idea of two guys getting married, or a woman aborting an unwanted baby), have to submit to the opinions of these idiots. And thats how you get things like stickers in biology textbooks put there by backwards christian groups pointing out that evolution is only a theory. Yes its a theory, as is gravity, as is the fact that we're all living on the back of a giant tortise. Its just much, much more supported than creationism, or intelligent design, or whatever you have to call it now to make it just barely pass the line of separation of church and state.
As for alternatives - I don't know. It would be hypocritical to say ordinary idiots shouldn't be able to run a government, then propose some system of my own. Maybe a nation run by scientists and statsticians - people who, using logic, evidence and statistics, can make better decisions without pandering to religious nuts, tree huggers, war mongers, and pacifists.
And that is why I hate democracy.
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Submitted by hidden101 (user info) at 2004-12-20 09:19:26 EST (#)
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I remember a couple of bumper stickers that were shoved in my face in the 60's. "America, Love it or Leave it" and "My Country, Right or Wrong". I remember thinking that they should say, "America, Love it or Change it" and "My Country, Either be Right, or make it Right". Now that America is the land of the Greed and the home of the Empire, I really don't love it any more. I feel like a stranger in a strange land. I try to think of the beauty of our natural resources and I think about the dream of the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, but it just doesn't do it for me anymore. I am still faced with Disney Amerika, the Land of Denial, and Willful Ignorance 101. Live, Buy, Consume, Die.
-some guy named Mark T.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2004-12-20 05:41:49 EST (#)
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Not quite a democracy, more like a democratic republic.
Who would place these intellectual elites into power? What recourse would common people have to grieve wrongdoing by the government?
It sounds to me like you hate free thought. Maybe if everyone in the country thought like you, there would be no problems, right? Then you could start liking how things are ran.
The ability of the people to decide on their own system of government is what makes us thrive as people.
The more I think about this post, the more I wonder if you and people like you actually have any respect for your fellow man. Why would you get rid of the only system of government that has allowed all people living under it the chance to be successful at life? The only system where all the people living under it have recourse for wrongdoings.
Regardless of the relative intelligence of your fellow man, why does he not have the right to choose what is best for himself? Would you be in favor of an IQ requirement in order to vote? Would you discriminate against the "unintelligent"?
Is this what is "progressive"?
If modern liberal values is headed towards this, perhaps the word liberal has lost its meaning.
Submitted by Ed_0150 (user info) at 2004-12-19 23:32:20 EST (#)
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I to dislike Democracy.
Submitted by Nobb (user info) at 2004-12-19 20:16:47 EST (#)
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+2 just to spite the people who still think people wouldn't be complaining about how fucked up America is if Kerry had won.
Submitted by FuckTheArmy (user info) at 2004-12-19 19:49:34 EST (#)
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Thanks Steven. You said it - Education.
Problem is, that would require the overthrow (whether immediate or gradual) of money-grabbing corporate America.
Glad I don't live there. (Oh crap, Australia's just as bad.)
Submitted by lovetohate (user info) at 2004-12-19 19:47:58 EST (#)
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The political process sucks. Get over it.
Submitted by IcyBlackHand (user info) at 2004-12-19 19:43:10 EST (#)
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I'm sure if your boy Kerry had won, you'd be extolling the virutes of democracy
Submitted by CoachMagirk27 (user info) at 2004-12-19 19:39:32 EST (#)
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Why I Hate Democracy: Because I am an idiot.
Would you rather have... No fucking option? One fucker running the show? Whether you like it or not? If you weren't so godamn lazy you could change things. Unlike all other forms of government, in democracies that isn't impossible.
Go move to Sudan.
(die)
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2004-12-19 19:31:48 EST (#)
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I hate politics in general...
Submitted by Chronicles_of_College_Guy (user info) at 2004-12-19 18:32:24 EST (#)
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"Maybe a nation run by scientists and statsticians - people who, using logic, evidence and statistics, can make better decisions without pandering..."
Sounds like "1984" to me, man. No thanks.
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2004-12-19 18:25:45 EST (#)
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How does this not have a +2 streak?
The best way to run a democracy is have an eligibility test to see who is damn too stupid to vote.
Of course that`ll probably be corrupted. In the end you just can`t win.
Submitted by stevendurel (user info) at 2004-12-19 18:24:57 EST (#)
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I disagree with your diagnosis of the problem. The problem is not that there is too much democracy, but rather that there is too little. The only reason that people in this nation are by-and-large idiots is because that's how the system turns you out to be. If we had an educational system more focussed on teaching instead of preparing for tests and if we had a media more concerned with public welfare than corporate sponsorship, then we would have a better democracy.
I believe that you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak. Democracy is not flawed--modern democracy is.
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2004-12-19 18:21:48 EST (#)
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Democracy works, just not in nations with this many people. If there were more state rights this wouldn't be an issue as each state would decide what was best for it's own state, not having people in ohio decid what is best for all the other states.
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2004-12-19 18:18:24 EST (#)
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Plato had a Walmart?
Submitted by Stin (user info) at 2004-12-19 18:15:29 EST (#)
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That's the trouble with democracy, any old fucking idiot gets to vote.
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2004-12-19 17:55:48 EST (#)
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I won't -2 you for that final thought. The robots should rule, most definitely.