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D'oh, yes? Simplistic ideologues proclaim that "democracy" is some fabulous thing, which will provide peace & prosperity & justice & happily-ever-after for eve
by bell-cot 1y ago
D'oh, yes? Simplistic ideologues proclaim that "democracy" is some fabulous thing, which will provide peace & prosperity & justice & happily-ever-after for everyone, if only we believe.
Meanwhile, it gets more and more obvious to the 90% that those proclamations are bullshit, and this magic "democracy" stuff is good only for the 1%.
Note that there is nothing special about "democracy" here. I could make the same arguments about "communism" in '80's-era Eastern Europe, or "theocracy" in modern Iran, or ...
Whichever -ocracy's and -ism's your society idolizes - behind the shiny facade, a whole lot of people have to give a crap about making it actually work for the vast majority of your citizens, then work hard at doing that. Complacent modern "gimme, now!" capitalism has largely optimized that work out of western societies, leading to obvious instabilities.
- pvg 1y agoI could make the same arguments about "communism" in '80's-era Eastern Europe, or "theocracy" in modern Iran No, you can't, without completely making stuff up. Plenty of people have lived in those and also the other alternatives who could tell you this, not that it's difficult to surmise without that experience.
- bell-cot 1y agoAre you claiming that Soviet communism did not promise a bright & prosperous future to the young and the working classes? Or do you feel that it delivered on such a promise? Or what?
- pvg 1y agoThe idea that "democracy" is some ineffectual promise like "communism" and "Iranian theocracy" is obviously wrong because we have the record of a whole bunch of democracies being a lot more successful than any communist or theocratic state. It's a rhetorical flourish than doesn't survive the slightest scrutiny.