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democracy is better because in extreme situations it works. the u.s. is not exactly a democracy tho, because it is so hard for a third party to be viable it's
by ferzul 7y ago
democracy is better because in extreme situations it works.
the u.s. is not exactly a democracy tho, because it is so hard for a third party to be viable it's practically illegal. fptp doesn't do that - see canada, india, the u.k. it's a deliberate choice by the powerful to prevent them from having to listen to the weak - which is exactly the point of democracy.
- t-writescode 7y agoI would actually argue that a dictatorship is better in extreme situations than a democracy. Democracies are slow, dictators can produce edicts in a moment. Even the US has tricks to become an approximation if a dictatorship in times of urgency, with marshal law. You don’t put quarantines to a vote, you quarantine. Democracies are good because you need a lot of people’s buy-off to do something and in the general case, that’s a good thing. In the extreme case, it’s too slow.