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Democracy works better as you allow more people to participate. White, protestant only democracy screws over people that aren't white protestants Really, demo
by 8note 5y ago
Democracy works better as you allow more people to participate.
White, protestant only democracy screws over people that aren't white protestants
Really, democracy shares some problems with capitalism; it relies on people be homo economicus instead of homo sapiens. That people will vote for what's objectively best for themselves, instead of for their in-group and against their out-group
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoI agree with your first two statements. It feels like your third comment is more commonly made by the people fighting to keep democratic power to a smaller group. There is a theory that the first and second world wars (and a bunch of other bad stuff) can be traced fairly directly to anti-democratic propaganda of this type. The protocol of the elders of Zion is one famous example initially fabricated by monarchists to explain how democracy is actually scary and bad and foreign, the illuminati are still a classic conspiracy feature because they were interested in democracy. It's also interesting that greater democracy was forced on Germany after WW2 to stop repeats, so at least some people at the time and close to the situation seem to agree with this thesis.