Yeah but if the country votes on the national level to not allow corporations to play states off against each other, that is also democracy. Edit: I cannot re

Yeah but if the country votes on the national level to not allow corporations to play states off against each other, that is also democracy. Edit: I cannot reply since my original post generated too much controversy. I do not believe I am engaging in flame war behaviors of course. But: to answer your question, first off, democracy is the process by which groups of people make decisions together that they all abide by. In any situation involving more than one person sometimes it won’t work to have every individual do their own thing; sometimes people have to coordinate. If they need to coordinate, but don’t want to be simply ruled by a despot, then they use democracy. Democracy is especially needed when some group of people is facing an organized enemy. Trying to fight an organized enemy as an uncoordinated mass is foolhardy. Your more specific question is: should there be any sort of international cooperation to prevent transnational corporations from playing countries off against each other? Yes! obviously. It would take treaties, negotiations, and so forth, but yes, we should absolutely do something about that.