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Perhaps the sentiment is more about how our expectations of democracy are completely out of line with the results of democracy.
by owlstuffing 3y ago
Perhaps the sentiment is more about how our expectations of democracy are completely out of line with the results of democracy.
- malermeister 3y agoThat is because of the fatal flaw of democracy: The demos is people and the majority of people are stupid.
- Agingcoder 3y agoIndeed, you’re most likely right. I’ve seen around me a growing sentiment along the lines of ´ my views and candidates didn’t win so democracy doesn’t work’ coupled with ´this allows me to claim that violence / authoritarian regime with my views is ok’. I wonder whether people are slowly realizing now that democracy has limits, whereas they used not to, and don’t like it. Democracy essentially says that you have a say, but so does everyone else, so it’s going to be messier than expected !