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It's super easy: democracy is a blatant lie, and capitalism is while mostly true, is also partially a lie. They are still good things - we should see them only
by anovikov 5y ago
It's super easy: democracy is a blatant lie, and capitalism is while mostly true, is also partially a lie. They are still good things - we should see them only in light of alternatives, and only alternative is communism, which is a total, complete lie from any angle you can look at it, and it quickly descends into violent coercion to force people to do... well anything at all they are supposed to do voluntarily in a normal society, just because communism doesn't work.
Cynical view of democracy is that it's a society where the government is artificially made weak enough by all this checks and balances bs so it is unable to destroy our lives.
- drdeca 5y agoWhether democracy is “a lie” depends on what the thing it is supposed to be is. If it is supposed to channel the collective spirit/collective will of the populace, well, it doesn’t do that, because there is no such collective spirit. If instead it is a mechanism to avoid succession crises, and also tend to pick options that are in alignment with an overwhelming consensus, then the systems in place are actually quite good at those things (though there is still definitely room for improvements to be made on the latter thing). If what democracy means is the first thing, then it is false. If it means the second thing, it is true.
- lifeplusplus 5y agoMy impression of democracy is that you have to fight for it everyday, every election, every law that passes. If you get passive there are many hiding in shadows ready to bend the govt away from what's best for the people. Fist step is to understand why system works, if there is hope to keep it working. Capitalism seems to work for 70% of the stuff and yes that need to be acknowledged.