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Democracy still is a good idea.

• hulitu 1y ago
  > Democracy still is a good idea. When they finnaly implement it. /s
• ndsipa_pomu 1y ago
  Only with an educated population. An uneducated population is more easily swayed by cults of personality which can lead to the rise of dictators as the people will accept and justify any behaviour from the leader of their tribe.
  • lm28469 1y ago
    "democracy is bad because it can lead to dictatorship" can't be a serious argument... Democracies are all flawed but theocracies, monarchies, oligarchies, &c. certainly aren't better when it comes to cult of personalities and serving their own tribes
    • rightbyte 1y ago
      > "democracy is bad because it can lead to dictatorship" can't be a serious argument... Heh you got a good point. People seem to expect way to much from their form of government and get desillusionized when it is not magic. Like, join a party and see how the sausage is made.
    • ndsipa_pomu 1y ago
      > "democracy is bad because it can lead to dictatorship" can't be a serious argument... It's not and I didn't write, nor intend that. Educated voters are a pre-condition for democracy and without that, democracy fails. It's similar to how market knowledge is a pre-condition of free markets as otherwise markets favour the biggest trader.
• hoseja 1y ago
  Not with universal suffrage. And without it you need to aggresively curb revolutionary communist parasites.