Democracy in Danger
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What kind of democracy I want? One where the people have the power, and not the corrupt elites.
Platitudes and rhetoric. The elites are people. We all want the correct people to have power, and not the corrupt people. The question is what system best leads us there. Just saying "we need more Democracy, this isn't true Democracy because we don't have the power" is like a warped No True Scotsman fallacy. If you don't think we have real Democracy then I want to know your measurable qualifiers so I can agree or disagree. I assumed you meant Immediate Direct Democracy.
They are?
Whether or not a system is democratic is empirically testable. To what extent do government policies reflect the will of the population? Based on that, I assert that Western countries are rather undemocratic.
That's not very practical, is it, except on a very local level.
I have no solution. My argument is only that our problems, and I think we can agree on what they are, stem not of too much democracy, but of too little - as 'the people' are on our side when it comes to these matters.
Lizard People are people too!
You could do it with computers and shit. That's what the Internet is for.