I know this will sound horrible, but let's just think for a second. Do people deserve democracy?

Question

If some intelligent and compassionate men were to take hold of the world and become fascists, but they always remained good and intelligent men, would it really be so bad? C'mon now, people don't read. People argue and fight and are selfish. For reasons I cannot state here for lack of space, I still have hope in democracy, but I believe we should never lose the rationale for it. So people, do you know any reasons why democracy is a good idea? Please don't put answers like "it's obvious, duh."

If some intelligent and compassionate men were to take hold of the world and become fascists, but they always remained good and intelligent men, would it really be so bad? C'mon now, people don't read. People argue and fight and are selfish. For reasons I cannot state here for lack of space, I still have hope in democracy, but I believe we should never lose the rationale for it. So people, do you know any reasons why democracy is a good idea? Please don't put answers like "it's obvious, duh." To clear up the hypothetical: Just imagine a world that is as just and progressive as a dream-democracy, except that it is fascist. Same world, except that the people have no control. Leaders never become corrupt. Would you rather live in a less perfect world if it is a democracy? Why is democracy any good at all?

Answer 1

That's a very thought-provoking question. It raises some interesting ideas:

People who live in a democracy tout it as the end-all-to-be-all, but look at voter turn-out rates. Voter apathy is at an all time high. If these people don't care enough to vote, why should they care about having a democracy.

However, I wonder about your hypothesis: if some intelligent and compassionate men (why not women?!) took hold of the world and ran it as a fascist state (why not a monarchy? or a communist state?)....

And the whole "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Communism, in it's ideal state as outline by Karl Marx really is a noble idea, but it didn't work out! Why? Were people like Lenin and Stalin horrible monsters right from the get-go or did their power corrupt them.

I think your hypothesis leads into another question: would it be possible for an intelligent and compassionate leader to remain intelligent and compassionate?

Answer 2

Well the odds of good and intelligent men seizing power, and always doing the right thing, is slim to none, Winston Churchill said "Democracy is the worst form of government we know, except for all the others that have been tried up to this time." Or at least it went something like that. Democracy isnt perfect, but it is the best known way. Besides even if they did seize power they and rule good and inteligently, they would still make bad decisions, usually decisions are better, or less worse, when alot of people are involved in their making, and thus you have many points of view.

Answer 3

Real democracy comes whilst the humans who vote could make an expert resolution on who to vote for and why? Unfortunately this handiest comes with schooling. The Mubarak regime did not make the effort to upgrade schooling within the nation. The MB will frequently no longer difference that and the Salafi have a 4th Century knowledge of the sector in an effort to frequently convey schooling again to the stone age. Who relatively has an curiosity in teaching the loads? It's handy to maintain them ignorant, subservient and elegant. How else do you preserve vigor? I nonetheless have desire for Egypt.. when you consider that it has a few tremendously wise and vigorous humans.

Answer 4

This is the best question I've seen on this site and it goes straight to the heart of American politics. Americans have absolutely no clue that their thinking is entirely shaped and controlled by the TV and (for those receptive to the radio radicals) radio. The neoconservative extremists carry out a 9/11 false flag attack and follow it up with a multi-billion dollar propaganda campaign to sear our consciouses with the "story" they want us to adopt, though it is a BIG lie. Americans believe it because they haven't read "The Prince", or "The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu", or "The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution", or "The Pentagon Papers", or "All The President's Men", or "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", or "Louis Napoleon III", or etc...etc...etc...The tv alone forms our culture and Americans are "baited" into dumbing themselves down every night by the silly sitcoms on every network. Fox News beats the drums of conservatism and tells you to hate those who disagree with them. Fox News is the White House Talking Points Network, and their main mission is to fuel the flames between conservative and liberal, republican and democrat, right and left, secular and ecclesiastic. This provides the distraction from the real issue; the spread of America's One World ambitions. In the process, Americans have forfeited their Constitutional role as the master of their government. And unbeknownst to them/us, their servants have risen up and quietly conquered and enslaved them. So do the people deserve democracy? I answer this with a question: does a drug abuser deserve a...drug???

Answer 5

deserve?
They never get it anyway.
Always deep pockets and corruption.