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Very important point. Democracy can destroy the Republic, the law must always be above the will of the masses. Electoral college is key to preserving the freedo
by peter_retief 7y ago
Very important point. Democracy can destroy the Republic, the law must always be above the will of the masses. Electoral college is key to preserving the freedoms individuals enjoy. Whats wrong with a Federation?
- peter_retief 7y agoI wonder if people understand how powerful the American Constitution is? Pure Democracies is essentially mob rule and has been tried and failed since ancient times
- umanwizard 7y agoThere are many countries that are not federations and are functioning fine, in practice. (E.g.: France, UK, Japan, many others...)
- ReptileMan 7y agoUK is not functioning quite well at the moment. And is something of a federation IIRC.
- umanwizard 7y agoThe UK is functioning okay, actually. Not being able to agree on what Brexit means is quite a minor problem by world standards. It doesn't change the fact that the UK is a highly developed country both in terms of GDP and HDI, has excellent infrastructure, plenty of food, etc. And the UK is not a federation, at all. The central Parliament in London wields all power and the devolved legislatures (in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) only have whatever authority the central state chooses to allow them to.
- peter_retief 7y agoSure, there are but in larger countries federations might make more sense.
- eropple 7y agoHow very fortunate that nobody is talking about "pure Democracy", but rather a more balanced representative republic that does not make land more powerful than the citizenry.
- peter_retief 7y agoRepresentative republic sounds good. Land is important though, probably at least as important as the citizenry.
- eropple 7y agoNo, it's not. People take primacy over either corporate interests or empty dirt. The insistence that this not be the case always, in every case, comes from some sewage-tier political pseudophilosophy.
- peter_retief 7y agoWell I guess we disagree on that. If we take Zimbabwe as a example of a democracy by the people we get the majority taking the possessions of minority groups. Now there are no jobs and no food. People are starving. Its not as simple as you say.
- jakeogh 7y agoThen stop using the wrong term. Democracy -is- majority rule. It's endlessely parroted by the groups that specialize in nation-breaking.
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- eropple 7y agoNobody in this reply chain used the term "democracy" as a descriptor, so why is your trilby so tipped? We've got borderline lizard people--sorry, globalist--conspiracy from you elsewhere in the thread, so to be frank I'm not expecting much, but the words are right there for you to read.