2006-08-26 01:35:43 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Probably because you don't live here in this Democracy. You live in a place where there is no freedom unless you think like your leader and therefor all others are wrong and only you and your leaders are right. You probably think if you kill innocent people you will go straight to Heaven too. What a moron..
PS
If you do live here in the Democracy, please move to some place like Iran. We don't want you here. Notice I said please, because you would be free to do as you wish if you did live here.
2006-08-26 01:42:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First, democracy in the U.S. is not "so-called". It IS democracy.
Secondly, democracy does not disguise anything.
Thirdly, capitalism does not "breed" anything.
What democracy is -- is freedom. Freedom allows people to live their lives with the freedom to explore, create, invent, experiment and so on. As long as a person does not commit a crime (i.e., steal, murder, assault, etc), that person has the freedom to do things people in other countries do not have the freedom to do. Free people have the freedom to move around as they wish. They can explore the possibility of making money and make more money and even get very wealthy.
Democracy gives free people the freedom to be human: that means all the vices AND the graces of human nature are free to explore.
Unfortunately, humans are not Holy. We sin. We steal and murder. We exploit things like children, stealing from the old and poor, commit fraud and so on.
However, your question implies that democracy "breeds" only these bad things. In that respect, you are totally wrong. Democracy is the reason the U.S. rose to be the most powerful nation in history. Democracy allowed dreamers to see their dreams become a reality. Many wonderful things have been invented and discovered because democracy gave people the FREEDOM to seek these things out.
If you have never known freedom, then it is understandable that you do not understand it. To not know freedom is sad.
Freedom and democracy work together saying, "You are free to persue your dreams and desires, as long as you do not harm others in doing so. We are a tribe; a large tribe. What you do should at least not be harmful to the rest of the tribe, and hopefully will benefit the tribe and all the other tribes in the world. The governing body of this tribe will not try to enslave you or limit you and your endeavors. Everyone in the tribe is an equal and has the same opportunity to achieve great things. If, as a member of this democratic tribe, you wish to do nothing but sit on your butt and be a lazy slob, you have the freedom (not the RIGHT) to do so."
I could continue with this, but I hope the above gives you some idea about what democracy is and can be.
2006-08-26 01:59:14 · answer #2 · answered by Thomas C 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not really democracy under capitalism. The capitalists just call it democracy to trick the general public into going along with the capitalist program. Under the "democracy" of capitalism, freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. The wealthy have far more airtime to express their opinions than everyone else. The result is politics and issues focusing on matters chosen by the wealthy.
In a real democracy, ideas would not have more weight because the wealthy few back them. In a real democracy, the people would have democratic control over what to do with their natural resources. In a real democracy, employees would be able to vote out the employer if they think he's doing a bad job or paying them too little while paying himself too much.
2006-08-26 07:14:20 · answer #3 · answered by cyu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greed was there even before the foundations of Capitalism were laid down.Democracies that are powered by capitalism are inherently corrupt because it has come to power due to the capitalist power ( money for election campaign etc ) so once the govt is in power they are just Puppets that are used by the very same capitalists who gave the support in the form of money! But a Govt. that is come to head the democracy without getting maligned by capitalist power are corruption free Govts
2006-08-26 09:38:10 · answer #4 · answered by imhm2004 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a natural part of the human condition to want to improve your position in life. Call that greed if you want to, but don't blame it on capitalism. Democracy simply provdes more people with the opportunity to strive to improve themselves. Other governments keep their people down, giving them only limited opportunities to improve themselves.
Corruption is certainly not unique to democracy. Look at the dictatorships and repressive governments of the world. Corruption is a by-product of power. A better way to evaluate a government is to look at those with the "least" corruption. We certainly have our problems, but we also have the laws and checks and balances in place to keep it from going out of control.
So, I'll take the good ol' USA. We are still the best game in town.
2006-08-26 02:40:04 · answer #5 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Greed and corruption are not exclusive to capitalism or a democratic form of government. If you adhere to that belief you do not even have a nodding acquaintance with history.
2006-08-26 02:02:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greed was around long before capitalism. There are nice capitalists and there are nasty capitalists. There have also been some pretty nasty non-capitalists, like Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, etc. Greed is not the sole property of capitalism, greed is one of the darker sides of human nature. Now give me your wallet... ;)
2006-08-26 01:43:44 · answer #7 · answered by Paul H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is definitely no level playing field in the so called democratic capitalist governance system.
In this system education, justice, health care become salable commodity and the rates are fixed on the investments and return ratio. thus it is empirically proved that the gap between haves and have not keeps increasing and we are leading to next stage of evolution where we would have super human with rich parents and un-evolved human who would work with out any security to produce wealth for capitalists.
2006-08-26 02:23:26 · answer #8 · answered by mukesh padhya 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think this is a question of greatest importance i have come across on Yahoo answers.
The answer is why shouldnt it when that instinct constitutes the basis of the system!
2006-08-26 01:51:29 · answer #9 · answered by boogie man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Capitalism is the natural state of man as expressed in terms of money.
Those who can get it have it.
Those who cannot get it don't have it.
Those who just don't get it starve.
2006-08-26 01:38:21 · answer #10 · answered by Cattlemanbob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋