Are we living in a democratic dictatorship ?

Question

Government pay no attention to the will and want of the nation. They just go ahead and do what they like. Is this really democratic? yes we get to vote but all partys seem to take the same line.

I'm really not whinging about this guys it's just a question. I actually do pretty well out of all this.

Oh yeah i'm in the UK by the way

Answer 1

Not really....

Regardless of the party, the face at the top changes at least every eight years...


Well, so far anyway.




g-day!

Answer 2

It was Margaret Thatcher who once described the British system of government as an "elective dictatorship". She is probably right, in that a government once elected, has a mandate from the people to carry out the task of government and to introduce [implement] laws, raise taxes and generally make life hell for the common people who are seen on the whole as a burdensome nuisance who must be amused and entertained from time to time.

To this end, the Blairite government issued an edict which allowed publicans to raise the price of beer so long as they remained open for longer hours. Keep the people drunk. That way they have no clear idea of what their government is doing, not through the haze of booze fumes anyway.

The problem with politicians is that they all want a lucative Government job and must therefore toe the party line and vote with the Government on each and every issue, even if it goes against their more mature way of thinking.

All three major parties, Labour, Tories and Lib/Dems all want the centre ground for themselves. We now have the entire massed ranks of all three parties holding on to each other for dear life on a traffic island in the centre of the highway with traffic rushing by on each side. Step back and you're dead, step forward and you're dead.

The entire nation is now so bonkers it has no idea what the hell it wants or if it ever wanted it in the first place and now that it's got it, has gone into a huff and will not come out until all the boys have gone home.

Answer 3

"The will and want of the nation" does not truly exist. We cannot unite behind any certain call for change because the we're not educated enough as a whole to sniff out the BS and vote accordingly. If we did that as a country, we would have a wider variety of political thinkers and party members in Washington.

For example, I want to vote Green, but it takes away a would-be vote from the Democrats, who I would prefer to be in office over Republicans. So my genuine preferences are neglected in avoidance of a worst case scenario.

What use is voting when we don't use the power against both the democratic and republican parties? For us, it's a choice between the puppet on the left or the puppet on the right.

We all eat up whatever spoon-fed hot-button issues the hollow politicians regurgitate to us, and then we bicker back and forth indefinitely.

Answer 4

Well it is not democratic........Nobody voted for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister , did they?
It resembles Stalinist Russia, so it could be a dictatorship.

Quinton Hogg coined the phrase " an elective dictatorship"

I expect any day to hear the government announce that elections are bad for us and promote social unrest, so in the future they won't be held.

Welcome to the Orwellian nightmare that is the "Socialist Republic of petty-minded Britain"

Answer 5

each and each party has the wonderful to %. a candidate any which way they see extra healthy.. The super delegate stuff is an invention of the Democratic party, it began in 1982 after the trouncing they took from President Ronald Reagan interior the 1980 elections. They felt they lost by using fact the wonderful candidate became no longer the nomination, so as that they got here up with this technique to grant the democratic elite the skill to set forth the best candidate. needless to say, that did no longer artwork o.k., for the reason that they have been given beat in 1984, and 1988.. yet oh properly.

Answer 6

The US is a democracy in name only. It's really a plutocracy - government for and by the wealthy ruling class. Our government goes through the motions, and throws the people a few crumbs to keep them distracted or quiet, while the few reap vast sums of money doled out by the federal gov't, collected from the poor and middle classes.

The dems and repubs essentially represent the same ruling class constituency. There are 2 stories for everything they do: 1) the fabricated one made up to sell it to the people, and 2) the real reason which is kept concealed - the redistribution of wealth and power to the already wealthy and powerful.

Answer 7

You could call Democracy a dictatorship of the people (kind of a conflict in terms). The essence of Democracy is that nobody will ever be totally pleased with everything their government does. That's because the opinions of every voting person is effectively taken into account.
People need to do a lot less whining about the government and spend a lot more time appreciating that we live in a free country with freedom of speech, freedom of religion (including the right to not have one) and the right to pursue your life as you see fit (mostly anyway).
ENOUGH WHINING!!!!

Answer 8

No. We live in a democracy (I'm assuming you're from the UK or USA!) Democracy isn't ideal but it's the best we've come up with so far. Go live in Burma or Zimbabwe and then you'll really find out what it's like to live in a dictatorship. You can bet you wouldn't be able to come onto websites like this.

Answer 9

The vote is the will of the poeple.
Take a look at what happen to the immigration reform package it was destroy by the will of the people.

There is a lot of difference between the will of the people and polls.

Just because it isn't going your way doesn't make it a dictatorship.

Answer 10

Pretty much. Spying on citizens for any reason, taking away rights like right to a speedy trial, right to an attorney, etc., and being considered the #1 country for violating human rights by Amnesty International doesn't sound very democratic and free to me.

Answer 11

Sure we get a vote every four or five years but that is where democracy starts and ends.

As you rightly state the main parties all tend to have similar policies and the only difference between them is one of personalities.

Many people now have given up bothering to vote in elections and I can understand why.

It serves not purpose!