That was more a shitpost statement mocking current democracy.
In truth, especially with America as an example since you had the perfect framework with the constitution, I don't think most places can handle democracy UNLESS it is racially homogeneous, has established traditions and a majority native religion.
Without ALL those factors, you're better off going back to monarchy.
Purist democracy will always fail. The US was founded with limited voting rights in mind - universal suffrage was the death knell. In the modern corrupted system, simply reverting to land ownership would be insufficient, but for the time period it was much better.
In modern day I'd suggest a starship troopers style system of franchise only being earned through potentially deadly personal civic service.
Democracy might be alot more appealing if the system we currently have in place actually listened when the will of the people spoke.
Instead we have a set of so-called 'elites' who think they know better.
I've hammered this before, but I'll do it again; The gay marriage vote failed in California. California. It only got on the books due to legislation from the bench. Unchecked immigration is universally unpopular, and yet...
Before we get back to disenfranchisement and a better constitutional republic, we'd best deal with said 'elites' so they don't get in the way.
Unrestricted democracy does not work, period. Allowing people without the moral capacity or incentive to care about the higher functions of society to vote results in an easily manipulable system.
It really does boil down to "Power either corrupts or attracts the corrupt."
The US only lasted as long as it has because it recognized that fact and took steps to restrict the power, either by splitting it up, or by limiting how long individuals had access to it. Of course, scumbags figured out the meta and cheat the system by installing literal puppets or otherwise outright ignoring the rules.
Which means the only failure of democracy in our country is that we don't show up to the doors of those elites and just shoot them for being traitors.
Which has nothing to do with a failure of the system itself as that is a universal issue across all types. The moment people are afraid to put patriotism before weak morality statements it all rolls downhill.
Even if racially homogeneous, democracy fails when we have reached sufficient technological proficiency that we promote dysgenic life that has no skin in the system.
Anyone advocating for AI making decisions is absolutely ignorant of AI and has no more business exerting political influence than women do. I've seen far too much of that lately for my taste and think we would do well to openly mock people for being that stupid.
You had me until "muh AI".
That was more a shitpost statement mocking current democracy.
In truth, especially with America as an example since you had the perfect framework with the constitution, I don't think most places can handle democracy UNLESS it is racially homogeneous, has established traditions and a majority native religion.
Without ALL those factors, you're better off going back to monarchy.
let’s face it, it’s only working if it’s white european or east asian racially homogenized society
Yeah, don't forget that Liberia was set up with a copy of the US Constitution.
Now now, Somaliland proved Africans CAN make a successful peaceful society thanks to retaining tribal heritage.
But yeah most other places are fucked when it comes to democracy.
Purist democracy will always fail. The US was founded with limited voting rights in mind - universal suffrage was the death knell. In the modern corrupted system, simply reverting to land ownership would be insufficient, but for the time period it was much better.
In modern day I'd suggest a starship troopers style system of franchise only being earned through potentially deadly personal civic service.
Democracy might be alot more appealing if the system we currently have in place actually listened when the will of the people spoke.
Instead we have a set of so-called 'elites' who think they know better.
I've hammered this before, but I'll do it again; The gay marriage vote failed in California. California. It only got on the books due to legislation from the bench. Unchecked immigration is universally unpopular, and yet...
Before we get back to disenfranchisement and a better constitutional republic, we'd best deal with said 'elites' so they don't get in the way.
Unrestricted democracy does not work, period. Allowing people without the moral capacity or incentive to care about the higher functions of society to vote results in an easily manipulable system.
It really does boil down to "Power either corrupts or attracts the corrupt."
The US only lasted as long as it has because it recognized that fact and took steps to restrict the power, either by splitting it up, or by limiting how long individuals had access to it. Of course, scumbags figured out the meta and cheat the system by installing literal puppets or otherwise outright ignoring the rules.
Which means the only failure of democracy in our country is that we don't show up to the doors of those elites and just shoot them for being traitors.
Which has nothing to do with a failure of the system itself as that is a universal issue across all types. The moment people are afraid to put patriotism before weak morality statements it all rolls downhill.
That's democracy working as intended. Get the media, the polls, the Experts™ to manufacture consensus. Herd mentality will do the rest.
Go Robert Heinlein. TANFL
I don't think you even need to go that far to have profound change:
Would drastically reshape the voting landscape.
Alternatively just make it so all the leeches (such as welfare moms that just pump out kids for gov money) can't vote.
Even if racially homogeneous, democracy fails when we have reached sufficient technological proficiency that we promote dysgenic life that has no skin in the system.
eh. id be fine with the idea if I get to program said AI.
Same.
Anyone advocating for AI making decisions is absolutely ignorant of AI and has no more business exerting political influence than women do. I've seen far too much of that lately for my taste and think we would do well to openly mock people for being that stupid.