Communism is one of the systems we know for sure demonstrably is worse for the general populace than democracy.
Others are Patriarchy and dictatorship.
Although for 50 years Americans have fucked up their democracy so badly, it’s beginning to look like it doesn’t matter.
But that is only until democracy is overturned, THEN it will show that democracy is obviously superior to the authoritarian dictatorship that is likely to come after.
Even a dysfunctional democracy like the American is better than any of the 3 mentioned above!
What would be better would be to strengthen democracy, and improve protections of citizens, and regulate capitalism better.
All of those are best done with a functioning democracy like for instance the Scandinavian model that is based on Social Demoracy.
Can you define what you mean by “democracy”? Because I hear this perspective often from people but never understand what they mean when they refer to “democracies”. E.g. the UK is seen as a “democracy” yet their government is clearly acting against their people’s interests by doing age verification shit and now raiding peoples homes for jailbreaking their TVs.
My perspective is that I don’t see democracy as any more virtuous than authoritarianism as a political system when elected officials aren’t serving the people’s interests.
It’s basically as bad as USA, and also a dysfunctional democracy. They even had the chance to change that in a public vote, and the idiots voted against it!!
A FAIR democracy is a democracy where all interest groups can have representation, although you typically have a lower limit of 2-5% vote to get representation.
And where every vote is counted equally, so a vote in 1 end of the country counts as much for representation as a vote in the other end.
And representation is according to the populous vote and nothing else.
My perspective is that I don’t see democracy as any more virtuous than authoritarianism as a political system when elected officials aren’t serving the people’s interests.
Well technically it isn’t really a democracy then, because their job is to serve their constituents.
Of course the worse the democracy the more that can be the case. And USA is a very bad democracy.
Still even that was way better than not having democracy until the Republicans went full blown sociopathic, and was still rewarded government power.
Something I suspect will only happen in a very bad democracy without equal democratic representation by minor parties.
Communism is one of the systems we know for sure demonstrably is worse for the general populace than democracy.
Others are Patriarchy and dictatorship.
Although for 50 years Americans have fucked up their democracy so badly, it’s beginning to look like it doesn’t matter.
But that is only until democracy is overturned, THEN it will show that democracy is obviously superior to the authoritarian dictatorship that is likely to come after.
Even a dysfunctional democracy like the American is better than any of the 3 mentioned above!
What would be better would be to strengthen democracy, and improve protections of citizens, and regulate capitalism better.
All of those are best done with a functioning democracy like for instance the Scandinavian model that is based on Social Demoracy.
Can you define what you mean by “democracy”? Because I hear this perspective often from people but never understand what they mean when they refer to “democracies”. E.g. the UK is seen as a “democracy” yet their government is clearly acting against their people’s interests by doing age verification shit and now raiding peoples homes for jailbreaking their TVs.
My perspective is that I don’t see democracy as any more virtuous than authoritarianism as a political system when elected officials aren’t serving the people’s interests.
It’s basically as bad as USA, and also a dysfunctional democracy. They even had the chance to change that in a public vote, and the idiots voted against it!!
A FAIR democracy is a democracy where all interest groups can have representation, although you typically have a lower limit of 2-5% vote to get representation.
And where every vote is counted equally, so a vote in 1 end of the country counts as much for representation as a vote in the other end.
And representation is according to the populous vote and nothing else.
Well technically it isn’t really a democracy then, because their job is to serve their constituents.
Of course the worse the democracy the more that can be the case. And USA is a very bad democracy.
Still even that was way better than not having democracy until the Republicans went full blown sociopathic, and was still rewarded government power.
Something I suspect will only happen in a very bad democracy without equal democratic representation by minor parties.