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Democracy gives you the nice moral feeling that the government's power is legitimate because of the way the representatives are selected by the citizens. Maybe
by MartinCron 14y ago
Democracy gives you the nice moral feeling that the government's power is legitimate because of the way the representatives are selected by the citizens. Maybe I'm not creative enough, but I don't see anything else that doesn't feel dystopian to me.
- qq66 14y agoDemocracy does give the government an image of legitimacy, but it's nearly as controlled by the special interests of the powerful, at the expense of the ordinary weak, as other forms of government. I don't know of any form of government provably superior to democracy, but much of the empowerment of democracy is illusory.