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Democracy doesn't work well when you're realistically only given only two options to vote for (or two and a half in the UK), and the bulk of the media is owned
by earthbee 5y ago
Democracy doesn't work well when you're realistically only given only two options to vote for (or two and a half in the UK), and the bulk of the media is owned by a small group of extremely rich people who use their media empire to push their world view.
For a better functioning democracy we'd need to break up media monopolies to help democracy thrive on a variety of viewpoints instead of just two, and we'd need more options of people or parties to vote for.
But even still, do you think the UK would be functioning better if it was a straight up dictatorship? Looking at dictatorships around the world, it seems unlikely.
Even a very broken cruddy democracy is better than the alternative.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoI want to believe a dictatorship by a good guy could work, but that's probably not realistic. I mean what even is a good guy? It's a philosophical question, I'm not very good / learned in that.
- andi999 5y agoPowerful good guy can work (see e.g. Singapore); usually the problem is when the powerful good guy retires another powerful guy is the successor, but you dont have any checks and balances to make sure if they are good or not. So after a few transitions you might end up with a powerful bad guy.
- soco 5y agoAlso a democracy with smart voters could work. Why, you're the one who started with fantasy examples :)