6 reasons why Democracy sucks

I don’t condone dictatorships or tyranny, but I don’t think democracy is the perfect government either. Instead of blindly accepting it as the only way a country can be lead, I think it’s important to become more aware of the flaws that exist in the modern idea of democracy.

This list is actually provoked by a new proposed amendment in Danish anti-terror-laws stating that outspoken opponents of democracy will not be allowed to enter the country. Well banish me, because here are 6 reasons why democracy sucks:

  • It Lacks Diversity
    If you want power in a democracy you need to appeal to as many people as possible. This becomes a problem when all parties want power and adjust their politics accordingly. The result will be a government that represents only the majority instead of the entire people.
  • It’s controlled by the Media
    The people in a democracy are supposed to elect their representatives based on an informed decision. To take this decision they rely on the media as their main source of information about politicians and problems to be addressed. The media as of today does not deliver this information. Instead of in-depth analysis we are presented with entertainment.
  • It’s Hijacked Easily
    Under the Nuremberg Trials Hermann Göring said: “..it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. […] All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
    This proves more relevant than ever in today’s world
  • It leads to Polarization
    Many parties see their politics as the one and only route to a better tomorrow instead of representing a viewpoint. This polarizes any debate because all other parties necessarily need to be wrong in that case. Instead of finding a common stand or seek a compromise, this determination leads to laws forced by a small majority or half implementations of otherwise good ideas.
  • It’s suppressive
    In a democracy the majority is given the power to suppress the rest. This seldom happens directly, but when people vote out of self-interest instead of interest for the country, they take a step on the way. The day everybody does that, we have a majority suppressing the rest. Kennedy once said: “ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country”. I think this principle applies when you vote as well.
  • It leads to Short-sightedness
    Back in the 18′hundred-and-something a Danish king ordered for new forests to be planted in order to rebuild the Danish navy when the trees would be full grown 200 years later.
    Imagine a politician making a plan reaching 200 years out in the future. It won’t happen.
    It seems to me that most politicians doesn’t think much further than the time they’re elected for… That’s why nobody did anything about global warming 20 years ago.

Remember that democracy isn’t the last state of evolution governments. How we rule each other will continue to evolve and when it does, it’s prudent that we look at the current shortcomings and try to make things better in that perspective.


Comments



2 Years ago

awesum !!!!!!!!


1 Year ago

heyyy!!! i totally agree!!! yeah go democracy! oh wait, dick-tator-ship! my three favorite words!!! whoo rock on bee-otch


1 Year ago

WHY DEMOCCRACY WILL NEVER CATCH ON. Politicians for democracy are all equally worthless, self serving control freaks, cruel, and inhumane, BUT they are great public fakers and professional lyers when it comes to concealing the real purpose of their actions no matter how seemingly noble (puke) they falsely appear at first glance, and as long as they can use the media and tv industry to spread their ideological idiocy, biases,and lies they are somewhat content, but unfortunately for them, democracy is not going to make it. The reason is easy, The purpose of war and democracy is to bring about misery,slavery, shortages, starvation, homelessness, (through artificial inflation), and bring about cultural conflicts upon its citiziens, so you can rest assured and bet the farm on the fact that bush and any other stupidass war monging democrat or republican politicians are doomed to lose. if democracy wasent so sensless, cruel, miserating and supportive of anarcho-primitivsm,it might have just caught on.


1 Year ago

__________________________________________ (quote) Founding Father Dr. Benjamin Rush said it this way, "They call it a democracy – a mobocracy in my opinion would be more proper." A U.S. Army Training Manual stated; "Democracy, n.: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy." This U.S. Army Training Manual was used only 70 years ago. __________________________________________


1 Year ago

democracy fanatics paid 550 billion dollars to fund the iraq war, the american army has killed more than 655.000 innocent civlians (men women and children) for democracy! A brand new genocidal holocost! All this pain and suffering for the most mindless and chaotic political regime in existence.


1 Year ago

All them dumb submissive soldiers dying for these sick political ideologies is so retarded, that it should be illegal. They really have to be dummies not to understand that war and invasion IS terrorism in the first place. And thats what the american millitary is, a big ass buch of state paid terrorists out to eliminate nations and citizens and dive people down into turmoil, misery and suffering. This bullshit of war for peace, is like preaching f*cking for virginity, it just makes no sense and is a bunch of lies to get war support from the dumbest.


1 Year ago

I must tell you that though most of your six points are correct yet all you are doing is blaming democracy not giving an alternative to it and as long as there is no alternative what use are the complaints.I believe that humans are born to serve people and we do serve others whether the motive for service is money or not.Lawyers serve their clients,doctors serve their patients and laborers serve their masters.The problem is that politicians lack the desire to serve the country.I live in India,a country that has 1 billion people and 70 percent of them are poor unemployed and illiterate.We have 1 million parties and all they do is promises before elections.Nobody makes an attempt to inprove the conditions of the poor and unemployed,all these stupid politicians do is make a show of patriotism.What to do?there is no alternative.


1 Year ago

You have a very good point there, and one that recently have been much on my mind. I don't request monarchy or oligarchy, but democracy won't last forever, and even if I might not know exactly what it will change into, I figure that I can always make a point about the current shortcomings, so that we may keep them in mind when changes occur. And they do occur. Not as in revolutions, but as evolutions in the structure of society which goes partly unnoticed because they aren't visible. These changes are as I see them mostly related to the relationship between media and public which, with the introduction of the internet is going to be a lot different in the future. This is important since the media and their lack of proper information is a huge problem for a democracy which is by it's very nature based on enlightenment of the public. Misinformation is the direct cause of a lot of my points in the article, and when the media change, so will the democracy. Hopefully for the better. - Jonas


1 Year ago

Noodle Scot! Democracy sucks! F**K IT!


1 Year ago

American democracy and republicanism is esoteric fascism and mobrule there is no freedom there! and the even greater evil of democracy is that it empoverishes its citizens by imposing politicaly engineered hyper inflation on crucial goods to human existence such as housing, food, transport, ect, and manage to keep wages low This drowns citizens into misery poverty slavery and chaos confltic and self destruction, and i find it a social crime to have to vote or pay taxes for such enslavement self destruction , although dont support fascism and fundamentalism , they will have to reinvent a non miserating system in order to get any support.


1 Year ago

The solution would be to give politics the least amount of influence over a population. That requires a set of rules that give power to the individual vs the government. Many constitutions attempt to do this but fail. The failure is a result of groups of people with wants and desire to influence others. And the most powerful tool is the government. Groups use it to push religion on you, socialism, capitalism, nationalism and so on. A lot of their intentions are good but result in evil. Take a look at the NAZIs or the communists. Their basic intent was to build a perfect state. The intent is not wrong but the results are.


6 Fortnights ago

any regime that isent socialist or capitalist, would lead to societal hardship and slavery.


2 Fortnights ago

Excellent article! Personally I would favor a meritcratic technocracy. What do you think?


2 Fortnights ago

Meritocratic technocracy that is.


2 Fortnights ago

Meritocratic technocracy leads to elitism, prehaps only giving the right to vote to people with a 3rd lvl degree in education/ done milatary service with remove democracys faults. as it would make the government elected by informed people not ealisly swayed by retohric and lies. it would also increase th states efficency as u dont have 60 partys trying to get into power. just a thought


2 Fortnights ago

P.S. ask urself why in todays world should an uneducated man have the same influncece on major politcal matters (I.E the economy) as me when i hold a degree in econmics P.S.S i live in ireland that was free education for all so theres reason one should be uneducated, and maybe by promiseing th vote to the educated and dedicated it would inspire others to gain an education??


11 Days ago

DEMOCRACY RULEs!!!!!!!!! DIE TERRORIST SCUM!!!!


14 Hours ago

"Put the people to choose their leaders and the shit is done" Domocracy doesn't mean that the people is in charge, but the corporations are.


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