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>Democracy turned out to be easily manipulatable with large sums of money and media control. People being easy to manipulate is feature of humanity, not eviden
by Nokinside 4y ago
>Democracy turned out to be easily manipulatable with large sums of money and media control.
People being easy to manipulate is feature of humanity, not evidence that democracy does not work.
People are in charge for allowing that to happens, allowing to continue etc. If things go shit under heavy influencing and manipulation it's the failure of the people. "ruling classes" in democracy works is the fault of the non ruling majority.
- selfhoster11 4y ago> People being easy to manipulate is feature of humanity, not evidence that democracy does not work. Maybe it's both. Much like communism assumes altrustic spherical humans in a vacuum, so does democracy assume that each voter will both bother to vote, and that they are rational enough to vote close to what they actually want without being swayed. This could be evidence that democracy, much like communism, does not work very well.
- Nokinside 4y agoI don't think so. Communism has an idea of what should happen next, democracy does not. Democracy is open to change, for whatever people choose, even quitting democracy. Democracy is always changing, always on move and dangerous. That's why I like democracy. Functioning democracy can even end democracy and choose tyranny.