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0 pointsabigail953y ago0 comments

Democracy is majority rule.

Democracy is nothing about facts or opinions.

You are the one impacting democracy by saying we cannot survive if we keep current democratic rules.

You can have the best argument for improving society by limiting who is allowed to vote, what things you're allowed to vote on, and what facts you are allowed to talk about. It can even be a true argument that would make everyone better off. But if it's less democracy, then it's anti-democratic. If you care about minorities and people generally, that's good, if you care about democracy, that's bad.

The only way you can lose a democracy is by voting to stop voting, or voting to stop other people from voting.

The intelligence of the population has nothing to do with it.

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amanaplanacanal3y ago

> The only way you can lose a democracy is by voting to stop voting, or voting to stop other people from voting.

Or for the people in power to ignore the actual vote and do what they want to do anyway. See the large group of election deniers currently in government or running for office.

prewett3y ago

Well, you can also loose a democracy by governing so ineptly that the country falls apart or gets invaded. Also, Plato foresaw democracy descending to the point where people elected a dictator to bring order to the chaos, although that's covered in your post. If the population cannot/will not distinguish reality from what they wish were reality (a disease afflicting both the American left and the right, although in different areas), then the chances of inept leadership or believing the lies of leftist authoritarians or rightist authoritarians increases.

jaybrendansmith3y ago

So the winner in a Democracy or Republic should be the one who most successfully implements weaponized propaganda? The one who fills the airwaves and has the loudest megaphone and the money for the most ad buys? That is emphatically not what the founders of the United States intended, however much they may have initially limited the definition of a citizen. They expected the citizens to make reasoned choices, to be educated, to be well-read and to be rational actors. I highly suggest 'Common Sense' by Tom Paine.

bigbacaloa3y ago

The US is a republic not a democracy. Representation is not proportional.

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