Is Democracy The New Religion? Promises The Poor Everything But Delivers Nothing?

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From: anne s

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Message: i actually know Karl marx great grandson he went to university with my daughter , his name is Saul and we attend the same Synagogue
i am a huge fan of Marx , i often find you very narrow minded on yahoo , something marx was not


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From: anne s

Subject: Re: I call myself

Message: yea your full of yourself and a boastful bragger , your full of it
rename yourself its offensive to the memory of a great man
narrow minded people like you make me sick

I prefer China to this police state.

Answer 1

Yes in a way I agree it is.

When you read people saying things like "I hate Socialism - I would sooner be homeless and starving on the street but live in freedom and democracy" you guess that these people are actually living in nice comfortable houses with plenty to eat and never have and never will be starving on the street.

Desperately poor people take desperate measures to ease their suffering.

Answer 2

I think people fail to see Kerala a state in India as a postitive outcome. It was a communist state.

- It is the only state in S.India to have the highest % in education. ( 90% )

- Free education.

- The most properous state in S.India, and the list goes on.

They had no harsh dictatorship. Though i know not much about the governance of that state when they were Communists. I can tell that it was a mixture of Socialism, Communism and Marxism. There's a difference between the three.

Marxism and communism were initially the same thing. However as people tried to institute them, Marxism became the ideal that can never be achieved and communism came to be synonymous with the failed, corrupt, transitional, utrasocialist governments. Socialism is any form of government that takes control of various industries away from the private sector. All governments have some elements of socialism in the mix because there are just some things that the private sector cannot do. The debate is over just how much the government should do.

Answer 3

No. But it is fast becoming the new opiate of the masses. Just another aspect of the "bread and circuses" for the masses society the elite are creating. Democracy has become synonymous with a market orientated system when patently it need not be so.

For Marx only democracy would lead to socialism. The current ruling elite are using the facade of democracy to create a society where people genuinely believe there is no alternative to corporate capitalism.

But Marx also paid capitalism a back-handed compliment in that the system creates the means of producing enough for all. The problem remains one of maldistribution not production and the solution to that requires a redistribution of political power and influence where ordinary people have control of all aspects of their lifes. That would be democracy.

Answer 4

"there'll be pie in the sky when you die (that's a lie!)" - line from an old IWW song from the early part of the last century. There is nothing new under the sun, the hypocrisy just switches from party to party depending on which one holds the power. Right now the Repubs hold all the cards on hypocrisy but that could change. Study history.

Answer 5

No well known political system has ever succeeded. They are either inefficient, tyrannical or both. Democracy is favoured because the system tends to neutralise megalomaniacs. I suppose middle is best. Communism or fascism? both are police states, against private enterprise and end up with totalitarian leaders.

Answer 6

go to back Ya Q&A. read and reason behind what is said at democracy for new knowledge!And remember in this world their is not only the POOR and they never make this world alone.Then you will have to find other answer (s) to this question ( though childish !) Is there any law at that prevents any person of any religion to work his brains at self empowerment? And if you have time -go to another question at history of evolution at humanity and see "who was rich centuries ago and how they became so ?"Further - If you were rich what would you do -distribute your bags of money on the roads freely to any "said" to be poor ? One more- what will any deliver to one with a "poor" ( your word) mentality?
Be a happy guy today!

Answer 7

Pandering is the Democrats specialty. They will say anything and deliver nothing when pandering for votes. Look at Hillary and the $5000 free money to any baby born. That means illegal alien anchor baby, too. I have a friend on welfare and she is so excited about this wondering if her other kids can get the $5000, too. Maybe she will have more babies to cash in. It's sick.

Answer 8

You mean like promising health insurance to every child possible "beacause we care about the children" while on the other hand letting pedophiles get off with little or no consequences and not cracking down on the child porn industry? Seems contradictory.

Answer 9

The only thing Democracy promises is the opportunity for the poor to change thier lives. What a person does with that opportunity is up to them.

For example, we talk about having a right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happyness. We dont say happyness is a right, you only have the right to pursue it. If they catch it is up to the person.

Answer 10

Christianity, for my area, screws you. First you're advised that there is a God in some place in outer area (reckoning on which sect) who sees us each and every of the time. all persons. Who solutions our prayers.(Matt 7:7) and who needs us to be saved. yet as quickly as you start to think of logically and freely you will understand that none of those supplies are nicely worth something. you are able to attempt praying (won't artwork). you will locate that if God needed us to be saved he would communicate. i don't recommend stress us to be saved (yet even this stands out as the main suitable component to do and could be predicted of people) yet atleast proove himself. Christians fairly much continually say: "you % to bypass to hell" yet it incredibly is absurd. no person would "% to bypass to hell" think of roughly it. Atheists do not even have faith that hell exists. So i think of Christ is a fable (it fairly is what maximum technological know-how and history shows) And that faith qualifys as a fantasy.