- #36
CAC1001
Anything larger than a town has to have a representative democracy, or there'd be no way to govern. A democratic system must be structured to protect the majority from the minority and the minority from the majority.
CAC1001 said:Anything larger than a town has to have a representative democracy, or there'd be no way to govern. A democratic system must be structured to protect the majority from the minority and the minority from the majority.
Come now, the US is not an example of government of, by, and for the people. It's, essentially, an oligarchy -- government of, by, and for the rich. But the US is incredibly weathy. So, there's lots to go around, and virtually the entire population lives in relative comfort.jennex05 said:Democracy is the government of the people, by the people and for the people.That's probably why it works
Constantin said:But democracy has many flaws and doesn't always work.
More important than democracy is the economic capitalist system. The opposite is the state run communist system which proved to be a dead end, and which now only exists in North Korea.
Democracy doesn't work well with poverty.
In the third world there's a large number of countries which are not democracies.
It also might not be best suited for large countries with plenty of internal problems, like Russia or China.
Russia has something in between democracy and dictatorship, while China has a single party non democratic system.
Both however are capitalist countries.
So, in conclusion, there's a large number of cases where democracy doesn't work, and a large number where it does.
As the users of this forum are mostly from democratic countries, we might have a biased opinion about it.