The flaw of democracy

:a-thought:That democracy is flawed in the sense that "too" much political freedom is given to the people. The people are "overloaded" with too much political responsibility and this brings instability to debates on decisive action. In conclusion, people just don't know what do with their freedom of political expression becuase they have too much of it.

Well, at least this is my interpretation. What do you guys think?

I Agree with this. Governing a country is complicated like building an skyscraper. If the enginner gets to make the project by itself, all is well, but if a thousand people who dont know much about enginnering get a say in the matter, things get troublesome. Problem is that if nobody checks on the enginner's project he may make it as he wants rather than as it was asked from him.

So it seens to me a balance is necessary, as if the governors get too little power they cant govern, and if they get too much they get corrupt. I think that only allowing people with a decent understanding of government and the current situation of the country to vote may be a way of approaching this balance.

I do see your points of views and I do think that you are correct but only to a degree.
The only problem that I see is that people who rule will loose their sense of ethics over time and will forget about the intellectual challenged people that supply the labor force.:detective:

I do see your points of views and I do think that you are correct but only to a degree.
The only problem that I see is that people who rule will loose their sense of ethics over time and will forget about the intellectual challenged people that supply the labor force.:detective:

These days despite the fact that we record and save everything almost no one holds politicians to their word. They freely say one thing, turn around and contradict themselves and then proclaim they never said it. As if we have no way to verify that they actually did. I see this happen a lot and the only rational explanation I can come up with is that, behind the scenes someone influenced them to change their political stance so then you see the contradiction come out and they defend their new position.

Chameleon Politics.

Barack Obama has made a lot of campaign promises and has broken just about every single one of them, yet almost no one holds him to what he said during his campaign and his current political decisions.

Where is this "equal say" business?

Minimal wrote:

Where is this "equal say" business?

Seems you read the initial post without comprehending anything.

The initial post does speak of "equal say" and that's excatly the core problem we are discussing, and it is the core problem of democracy.

Barack Obama has made a lot of campaign promises and has broken just about every single one of them, yet almost no one holds him to what he said during his campaign and his current political decisions.

Yes, the United States is a democratic republic.

I have been think about democracy lately, and I have came to a conclusion: it is flawed. The reason: everyone gets an equal amount of say on who is going to lead the country next, but not everyone has the necessary knowledge about the current state of the country and of the world, to make a wise decision.

kennethamy wrote:

Yes, the United States is a democratic republic.

The US is a Constitutional Republic that has been on the wrong path toward some kind of bullshit 'democracy' for far to many years.

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The US needs to return to what it was and what it was intended to be.

which the US can only do with more than 2 parties

the US needs at least 4 to 5 political parties to be truly a democracy

espectially with your population

Yes, democracy in itself has immense flaws, but unfortunaly any other form of goverment are even more flawed.

One must consider the period of time a ruler can have power, the successor part, the dividing of power, the limits of power ..etc.

Imo only when we become supersavants through genetics, we can invent better form of goverments.

Well that is a very obvious flaw. Every system has it's downside. Either idiots call the shots, or the smart become too corrupt and powerful. There is a natural cycle in play, we will realize that democracy is bad because there are too many idiots, and then we will realize that in the next system, there is too much corruption and the majority has no say, so we go back and forth.

Once we educate everyone or cure corruption we can finally have a stable government. We will keep giving and taking until equilibrium occurs, then we will be happy.