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.
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.