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I Live in UE, and democraties here sucks too. This is not an US only issue.

• benrutter 3y ago
  I didn't mean to make out it was! But what democracy means seems to vary place by place so I figured it was helpful to at least make an explicit assumption. I'm not trying to sell anyone on a "everything is rosy" outlook, but I think its important to question whether the problem is democracy itself. I.e.: - Do you think democracy is bad because it's not representative enough? That sounds like you think the problem is that we need our systems to be more democratic? - Do you think democracy is bad because democratic countries have huge political problems? What makes you assume democracy is the cause of those problems? Most democratic countries are also capitalist, religous, have laws, etc. Are those things bad too? Don't get me wrong, its important to point out how our systems aren't working for us. But taking a blanket "democracy is bad" attitude is probably going to lead to the things your disenfranchised with becoming much much worse.