Ultimately is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Why?
2006-08-01 21:59:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Democracy only works when the people have a say in the system that governs them. When you begin to take away the peoples right to govern themselves in lue of "safety" you take away the peoples responsibility to the system. Yet the implications for such we can see now (as the world at large dislikes Americans because they believe that we are the ones who support going to war with a nation that didn't begin fighting with us, nevermind the fact that at best there is 40% of Americans that support said war). Before long you have a psyudo-democracy in which the people think that they are in control yet in truth they are governed by a dictator (for example Iraq).
2006-08-01 22:07:58 · answer #1 · answered by Lasher702 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Restrictions are understandable in times of war. Thus, they are OK only for a limited amount of time. Regretfully, a government is always reluctant to give up new powers. Thus, restrictions tend to survive over into peacetime.
Additionally, restrictions are acceptable ONLY if there is a real danger.
I don't know if the present situation constiutes that.
I DO BELIEVE that the Bush Administration is going to excessive lengths AND I am greatly worried by the North America Security Pac Bush signed semi-secretly in 2005 in Waco Texas with the heads of Mexico and Canada and which he and his staff refuse to submit to Congress on the pretext that it is an "executive agreement" and not a treaty.
Yet it calls for the subordination of the US Constitution to a tri-national tribute in which the USA has only one of three votes.
See the Bush Administration folder at this website. You will be horrified at what restrictions Bush and his gang are placing on America.
2006-08-02 05:09:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
too much of a good thing can be bad and yes even too much democracy can be detrimental and I'm a democratic saying this... too many freedoms hinder persona responsibility for a number of things... where to start... as that list is quite long. By enabling people we teach them not to think for themselves and do for themselves and this makes us as a society weaker in many ways... so yes too much democracy can be a hindrance
2006-08-02 05:05:16 · answer #3 · answered by kitkool 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In democracy one fool can become leader if 10 among 6 are fools. A lie become truth if 10 among 6 are votes.
2006-08-02 05:07:15 · answer #4 · answered by Red Scorpion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
democracy by itself is nothing.it is good but not enough.human needs a safe breeding ground and a safe area for progress.do you think democracy could provide at least this ?specially the one that Bush introduces.
2006-08-02 08:35:12 · answer #5 · answered by zeus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-08-02 05:03:29 · answer #6 · answered by Rim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as Jefferson said in his memoirs "If the citizens of this great nation we have formed ,trade these freedoms for back to the government in the guise of security ,they will find they have neither"
2006-08-02 05:21:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Restrictions become opression.
2006-08-02 05:03:26 · answer #8 · answered by helixburger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
normally i would say no, and its never needed.
but then i remembered ww2, britian created a war council, and did not have elections for a while..
then again, the people were bombed..
2006-08-02 05:05:53 · answer #9 · answered by holdon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋