Democracy in Danger
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You aren't puzzled about a damn thing, you're feigning ignorance and you're doing it because you're acting in bad faith.
Then explain to me how you think you live in a 'democracy'.
Why is there so much child grooming even though no one wants that?
It's not a democracy now, but democracy led us here.
Democracy puts power in the hands of people who are most adept at manipulating the voter base through pretext and propaganda, and stacking the deck through policy. Even with a government that does what the people want and even with safeguards to ensure election integrity, it's still a race to the bottom, where the best con men win.
I'm not saying democracy can't work, but it depends entirely on the intelligence of the public, and the public has been shown time and time again to be deeply stupid, even when they mean well.
Yes, this is an excellent criticism which does not presuppose that the sorry state of affairs today is a 'democracy'.
You can't possibly be this stupid.
Assume I am, and just answer the question.
I think you confuse the phony 'democracies' that you see around the world with a real one.
This is a real one, and the historical inevitability when universal suffrage is instituted.
Immorality, corruption, slothfulness, stupidity.