what are some weakness of a democracy?!?

Answer 1

The biggest weakness in a democracy is that everything takes way too long. To decide on an issue, it must first be drafted, then debated, and if it gets out of committee then it gets voted on by the house, and then the senate, and then it goes to the President, but he can veto it, and then it needs a 2/3 majority; then there are some instances where the voters need to decide on an issue so they have to gather and vote and the votes have to be tallied. It's an incredibly cumbersome process but it is the most "fair."

Also, to those idiots who wrote "Democrats!", rather than rant and rave about your wonderful president's approval rating and the death toll in a war we shouldn't be in in the first place, I'll simply calmly remind you that America isn't a democracy; it's a republic. The people don't make the decisions; instead, they vote for the officials who make the decisions on behalf of the masses.

Answer 2

Democracy have some weakness when the majority are wrong. they can impose ill because the majority support it

right now they are lot poll on TV and news paper that are saying the majority of people support something, but it is not true. That is one way of making people supporting something or accepting it because they are in the minority

True democracy require that people are fair and honest in order for democracry to work.


I see lot of unfairness and dishonest

then the question is when a nation is a democracy what percent of it is democracy?

To me the USA is a 65% democracy nation!!!

Answer 3

An accelerating trend of the last 50 years has been massive consolidation of the media such that editorial policy now permeates everything you see and hear.
You may vote on what you think is information but it's more than likely propoganda determining the outcome of elections.
Example the swift boat veteran lies that surfaced everywhere that sunk John Kerry in the last go round.
Can't call that democracy at all.

Answer 4

the lack of wisdom responsibility maturity informed opinion, lack of freedom from bigotry partisanship fanaticism prejudice hatred in the people

but who is going to be better?

the numbers of the people will tend to neutralise extremist opinion

but what if the majority opinion is wrong? what if everyone has some error that leads downhill, not uphill to happiness and peace?

eg, avarice, which is an almost universal vice [ie, cause of misery]

but any smaller group is going to be more vulnerable to extremism, partisanship, prejudice, fanaticism, special interests, narrowmindedness, immaturity, etc

the reason that democracy failed in america is that the people didnt understand the essential importance of preventing people raking more money than they make by work

the most you can make by work is around US$2 million [2006 dollars] - 50 hours x 50 weeks x 50 years x average hourly pay [US$15] - minus a lifetime's minimum spending - well under US$2 million

that means that all fortunes larger than this, less US$2 million, have been earned by others, ie, theft, injustice

without justice no state can survive

but money is power - and very unequal money is very unequal power, which means undemocracy, unfreedom, tyranny, fascism

americans failed to prevent unlimited fortunes, ie unlimited theft by raking money, and now they have a tyranny

pay from a million times average to 1000th of average - ie a billion times as much for the same amount of work, instead of equal pay for equal work

1% getting 90% of income, while doing less than 1% of the work - which of course means 99% getting 10% while doing more than 99% of the work

means anger, social disturbance, crumbling state

as fulltime people do about the same amount of work, the power is spread justly and widely if there is justice, ie, equal pay for equal work - democracy

if not, you have fascism, dictatorship, tyranny

america has gone from democracy to tyranny in 200 years

it doesnt matter what the legal structure of a state is - if people are allowed to have super overpay and super overpower, they are above the law, which is what america has had for over a 100 years - and what, say, britain has had for many centuries - secret cabals decide what is going to happen and then convince the people by disinformation

so the american democracy failed because people did not know the essential importance of just fortunes, of preventing overfortunes and overpower, although they were told often enough, from the beginning

the people are so easy to convince that they have a democracy if you just put democracy down on paper, in the laws - and then they lack vigilance to ensure there is democracy in reality

now, of course, the violence goes on in the presence of the bomb-power to destroy all life 60 times over - ie, fools playing with fire in a gunpowder factory

kaboom!

unless the people get their act together and decide to take back the US$70 trillion [money and power] that is stolen every year - but as they have completely failed to do this in the last 200 years, it is very likely they will not wake up to their responsibilities to themselves and their society in the few decades we have left before kaboom

humanity: smart enough to make gunpowder and fire, not smart enough not to play with fire in a gunpowder factory

a bit like the sorcerer's apprentice - smart enough to start a spell, not smart enough to stop it

but we are all made of energy, which cannot be created or destroyed, not matter, which can be destroyed, so after the nuclear holocaust, we will all turn up somewhere in the universe as something living - hopefully with a trace of having learned our lesson

there are many many wideopen legal ways by which money moves from earners [workers, makers] to non-earners [rakers] - and this is very important that people in a democracy know these ways and prevent them operating, because money is power, and soon, with uncontrolled raking, you get the extreme imbalance of power which is undemocracy, fascism, tyranny, state terrorism, eg communism

america is little better than communism now, and has as long to live - injustice generates conflict, which tears the state to pieces

Answer 5

It is like getting in the middle of a square ,saying you feel pain and asking people's opinion about what to do ,asking them to vote for a cure.In other words everyone has an opinion about things he knows nothing about.And gets to vote.
Who wins?The most sympathetic : the best liar.
Plus the extra bonus of having totally irresponsible leaders.No matter what they do ,lie ,cheat ,steal or mess up they go home with a good pension.

Answer 6

people abuse their freedoms and lose their sense of responsibility. Still trying to find who said it, but there's a great quote about the end of all democracies being when the people figure out that they can vote themselves gifts....It goes back to Greek or Roman times, I believe.

Answer 7

some weaknesses are people voting on subjects their not familiar with, just look at any city council initiative,

i'll bet half the people in town don't even know what their city council is discussing even when its about taxes ect...

Answer 8

in a true democracy? that you can vote your goverment into bankruptcy
example: No taxes, government pays me to just exist

another one would be you could vote minority beliefs or even races into exile

Answer 9

Exercise of one's freedom carried to the extreme and almost limitless.

Answer 10

Tyranny of the majority.