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Old 09-06-2014, 08:59 PM   #16 (permalink)
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And democracy may very well be leading to terminal government stagnation and paralysis. People are willfully ignorant, petty, self-satisfied in their over-simplified concepts of politics, and not just easily, but eager to be led like sheep. What proof do we have that the rule of the people is going to end any better? A couple hundred years of hit-and-miss successes is a blink of the eye compared to many historical governments. I think my idea is at least interesting to think about, if only to get people out of the habit of treating democracy like some kind of secular religion.
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But it's hard to determine whether we should blame Democracy or just bad policy and human nature. Democracy correlates with more civility for most cultures. I think the US has tried to force feed Democracy on cultures that are still pretty feudal and it hasn't worked out for us. So maybe it's not so much that Democracy is fundamentally flawed as much as human nature isn't ready for something like that.
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