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if you limit your idea of governance to the narrow field of what the public finds aesthetically pleasing then yes. democracy is retarded.
by nazgulnarsil 17y ago
if you limit your idea of governance to the narrow field of what the public finds aesthetically pleasing then yes. democracy is retarded.
- mtts 17y agoLuckily, with the exception of some Swiss cantons that put issues to a plebiscite once in a while, democracy usually is governance as usual with the chance for the public to intervene once in a while when things get really out of hand.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agothought provoking response. obviously true in a general sense, but there's lots of argument to be had over the specifics. I suppose the short response is that I dislike dishonest government. if a government isn't really a democracy but rather something else then the power should not be allowed to go cloaked. the illusion of control by the common citizen causes wasteful misdirection of resources.
- lionhearted 17y ago"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." - H. L. Mencken