Is democracy out-dated?

Question

Is our current democracy still a democracy? Even when we force it onto people? Do we need to go back to the founding rules of democracy or do we need a new form of governement? And what would you suggest?

Answer 1

People are un-educated and easily confused in our country...If i could suggest one thing......it would be to change it would be to keep corporations and wealthy individuals away from our politicans, some of these are noble men that are forced to take campaign funds from private interest parties to compete. I do not like the money = vote correlations.....I also do not like the control corps have over the media and Believe in limiting their exposure to control. Re-empower the people and dis-empower the corps and super-wealthy

Answer 2

Democracy has its flaws like all man made systems,but it is by far the most effective and the most just system of governent.The
other systems,Oligarchy and tyrrany(dictatorship) are at least regressive in nature...Your current form of democracy is an ofshoot of the English model(more akin to the Spartan Model and not to the original Athenian which-thank God-
didn't have elections or professional politicians,but only for secondary posts or screening proceedures)but wheras the English have universal sufrage only a minority of your citizens have the right of
the vote,so much so that it casts a shadow of doubt as to the democratic nature of your constitution,and creates two classes of citizens.

Answer 3

Democracy is the worst system of government ever created, with the exception of all the other forms that came before it.

-Churchil

I think what we live in is more of an Oligarchy than a Democracy, really, but that's neither here nor there.

I say blow our own **** up and start over.

If the Iraqui's wanted freedom and democracy, they should have earned it for themselves. We beat freakin Brittan all by our lonesome, what's Saddam got on that?

People do not value what is given to them like they value what they toil for.

Answer 4

We can`t say merry Christmas, we can`t PROPERLY spank our children , teachers can`t teach any more because they might hurt someones feelings etc....I think we have to many rules of what we can and can`t do anymore to be a democracy.....I think though it`s more the fault of a corrupt Political system....Politics arn`t for the peoples voice any more it`s a business AND WE LET IT HAPPEN . It`s our political system that needs reformed.. We need to get rid of parties, they rarely agree with one another anymore anyway there beliefs intertwine so why not get rid of the competition between parties (that`s the business anyway) and Vote for people.

Answer 5

Democracy is pretty much in fashion...most preferred
system in the world ..a set of rules which has to be accepted by all the people ..and if new rules needed to be introduced to accommodate and compliment previous rules so be it ..some of us may not like them.. but it is not the minority that's counts it's the majority ...

Answer 6

We never were a democracy! We are a Representative Republic. If we were a democracy Bush would have lost the election in 2000!

Answer 7

Democracy is still Democracy, whether you topple it or dump it as long as the law of reason and the majority, rules the Government.
But is it out-dated... i guess not... it is just the rich and the poor that makes the Democracy a joke. As their gap is widening in every day affair... making the poor, poorer and rich, richer.

Answer 8

Democracy is not out-dated. Politics is the problem. Our political system is corrupted by money & power. By the time a seemingly decent person gets enough money & support to succesfully run for office they owe to much to the power brokers to ever represent the people they want to serve.

Answer 9

Democracy in America is being slowly and systematically killed -- murdered -- by judges who don't do their job right.

Bush v. Gore, Roe v. Wade, Lawrence v. Texas, and many other examples from the U.S.S.C.

Goodridge v. Dept. of Health from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Answer 10

ah see you are under the impression that democracy exists,it only exists for the chosen few,and if you vote, you vote to give the chosen few the parliamentary democracy.for the rest of us democracy doesn't exist and never as done.but like sheep we are all led,and believe what we are told,and who founded the rules of democracy.