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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
Yeah - I guess. Ancient Greece tried pure democracy, everyone voted individually on everything. Then they got beat and enslaved by stupider people with a republic.
What happens in chaos is that eventually a very ruthless strongman takes over. So the constitution has value because it has a tradition that keeps that at bay.
There are 190+ countries, 200+ if you count territories, and to point endlessly to Switzerland, which is a small country of 8.5 million, and is not even as large as American cities, is ridiculous. Same Denmark, 5.2 million.
Those tiny countries are the exception, not the rule.
Rule of the demos, the people, is only possible practically in very small places, not in large populous countries.
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some perspective...
this is a capitalistic democracy.... remember which word comes first.
While I do not support it, communism was never a threat to democracy.
It was a threat to capitalism. Notice we sparred no expense in squashing that idea down.
Capitalism is great, yes, greed is good, but uncontrolled greed and uncontrolled capitalism is bad.
Capitalism should never OWN democracy.
You have to manage it as a tool and a end to a means. It can not set the rules for itself. It then becomes uncontrolled greed.
In Russia, Capitalism owns democracy. How does that look ? Want some...
It was the same reason they had the communist revolution. It was against capitalism not democracy since they did not have democracy then. It was a revolution against capitalism.
Capitalism is not bad, uncontrolled capitalism is.
This is the real war you are fighting and everyone is wearing masks !
Vote your aspirations.