Democracy doesn't work because most people are Stupid AF

[FinalFight]

Molyspew is a can.

 

[Otto!]

The system is so broken it’s disgusting. Politicians have their self interest at heart first and foremost.

 

[Joe265]

The overwhelming majority of the population are low IQ and extremely ignorant.

There are no qualifications of intelligence, education, knowledge or character on voting.

Which is probably why all the political system is an embarrassingly transparent puppet show where you can vote for Globalist Stooge #1 or Globalist Stooge #2, they are all high level, secret society criminal multi millionaires who say that they will continue the awful system but improve it slightly, then continue it while making it worse and people still vote for them every time.

Voter turnout is low because a lot of people don't even bother participating in this farcical system.

They rig the vote numbers too and everyone knows it but the public keep on voting.

Universal Suffrage democracy is a guaranteed fail system. Mentally retarded people can vote. Democracy = epic fail.

The election of Trump has seemed to cause a panic in all the systems that you claim are in charge. I think the bottom line is you’re getting too arrogant for yourself. You think you have all the answers and that’s preventing you from seeing what’s truly going on.

 

[cheez whiz]

None of us are as stupid as all of us. That's why the US is a representative republic, not a democracy.

 

[franklinstower]

The overwhelming majority of the population are low IQ and extremely ignorant.

There are no qualifications of intelligence, education, knowledge or character on voting.

Which is probably why all the political system is an embarrassingly transparent puppet show where you can vote for Globalist Stooge #1 or Globalist Stooge #2, they are all high level, secret society criminal multi millionaires who say that they will continue the awful system but improve it slightly, then continue it while making it worse and people still vote for them every time.

Voter turnout is low because a lot of people don't even bother participating in this farcical system.

They rig the vote numbers too and everyone knows it but the public keep on voting.

Universal Suffrage democracy is a guaranteed fail system. Mentally retarded people can vote. Democracy = epic fail.

Instead of blaming the stupidity of the population I think it is better to blame the politicians for being liars.

We should make it a federal crime to knowingly lie to constituents and follow up with prison sentences. All lies ought to be tracked and politicians ought to be forced to go on air (publicly funded) and state why what they said is wrong and then tell the truth.


Prison sentences are the answer. Public servants just need to get to the point of actually serving the public.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

Democracy works quite well. No doubt every democratic government has problems which seem intractable and often seem self-inflicted. But compared to other forms of government, it's a significantly better system.

 

[Jack V Savage]

The outcomes of democracy would significantly improve if citizens demanded candidates who demonstrated mastery in various areas of thought and study, instead of charismatic men who's primary verifiable skill is talking (See Trump; Trudeau).

Salieri, as portrayed in the movie "Amadeus," was cursed to have enough musical skill to truly appreciate the brilliance of Mozart but not enough to match it, and he was more worldly--knew how to stay in the good graces of the powerful and to play political games. That's basically what we need in politics--someone who knows how to play the game and can appreciate the work of brilliant policy analysts; not necessarily someone who himself has demonstrated mastery in crafting such work.

Of course now we have President Emperor Joseph II.

Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?

 

[Ghost in the Dark]

Democracy works quite well. No doubt every democratic government has problems which seem intractable and often seem self-inflicted. But compared to other forms of government, it's a significantly better system.

Big Brother loves you and everything is ok.

 

[Ghost in the Dark]

Did you want to offer up a better alternative to democracy?


Otherwise, this is more of a diary entry.

It would get deleted and I would be banned.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

Big Brother loves you and everything is ok.

Sure, elites control most things and no democracy is or ever will be perfectly egalitarian. Hardly a unique observation. But Big Brother, as you ought to know, was not an expression of democracy.

Your edgy political angst doesn't have much basis.

 

[AlexDB9]

 

[n...not crazy]

Yeah, it's not going well. You can basically drop out, leech off your parents for a while, register to vote, and determine your opinions from memes and tweets. That's good enough for the USA.

Ugh, why ya gotta bring this shit up?

 

[Rod1]

Why would those in power want to take away mass rights? The masses are imbeciles and manipulating them is like taking candy from a baby. The absolute best form of government for oligarchs/neofeudalist masters is Universal Suffrage democracy, they manipulate the masses into asking for what they the oligarchs want, do it, and then no one can argue because 'The people have spoken'. Any small minority of intelligent people who figure out what you're doing you just stampede the idiots over them. There's no legal, nonviolent way of shifting that system once you get it locked in.

BS, as long as there is democracy there is a way to shake things up.

What people seem to miss, is that democracy isnt a system that maximizes efficiency, its a system that maximizes freedom.

The freedom to choose your rulers doesnt prevents the people from choosing bad rulers.

 

[12ga.]

The founding father also supported slavery and half of them would roll in their graves that black men are free. Not exactly role models to study for modern political ideals.

Werd It's amusing people bring up those dregs as if some paragon of wisdom. All but 3 founding father were slave and indentured servant holders that means poor white people. Only rich like them could even vote. No women, no poor white, no black. They were rich white guys who didnt want to live under even richer white guys rule back in UK.

 

[12ga.]

Did you want to offer up a better alternative to democracy?


Otherwise, this is more of a diary entry.

Modern democracies are failing left and right. Banks own the people in places like Greece and it's democracy in name only. The ministers do exactly what bankers tell them to fuck the people. All these democracies will fail sooner or later for the simple reason the people we elect trade electoral popularity (low taxes and high spending) for future of country (debt). The attitude is they will be long gone when shit hits the fan.

I think monarchy has staying power - was proven so for 1000s of years. Whereby the sovereign has a vested interest in leaving his country better off because his heirs will inherit it.

We will see interesting history question since modern democracies are so new. I am a democrat in party and believer but not 100% sure it's best due to infancy historically speaking.

In the end might not matter at all because we are destroying planet and not listening to scientists so we might not even get to see full study on democracy. Oh wait...It's democracy that makes the death of expertise possible and may kill us all. I'm sure a king would listen to his scientists and not the rabble wanting 3 buck gas and 3 buck chickens.


Anyway point is democracy seems instant gratification for long term peril in my observation so far.

 

[TheGreatA]

Amongst an uninformed and ignorant population, democracy often turns into a competition between high IQ individuals, to try out their powers of manipulation over the masses.

 

[Iceberg Slim]

Smartest beings in the observable universe, but too stupid to vote.

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

They even let sherdoggers vote.

I think only sherdoggers whose screen names start with Edison and end with Carasio should be allowed to vote.

 

[Ghost in the Dark]

Werd It's amusing people bring up those dregs as if some paragon of wisdom. All but 3 founding father were slave and indentured servant holders that means poor white people. Only rich like them could even vote. No women, no poor white, no black. They were rich white guys who didnt want to live under even richer white guys rule back in UK.

Benjamin Franklin was a serial killer.
George Washington was a war criminal.

 

[spin]

It would get deleted and I would be banned.

ah the victim card to avoid posting anything of value.


you're dismissed.