Democracy....do you believe in it enough and value it enough to die for it...so others may enjoy its fruits?

Answer 1

If necessary, and I thought it would be productive, yes. But without dodging the issue, I'd argue that it's more effective to use one's intelligence to weave through the fog, and persuade by example and argument. So we need to value it enough to live for it, first. That way we just might achieve democracy one day, and live to practice and promote it in the meantime. But we need to define it. It isn't merely majority (mob) rule; and what passes for it now is at best mostly an uneasy truce between established power and disempowered dissent. Democracy requires full and open information, wide public engagement and participation even between elections, minds open to evidence and discussion, and readiness to abandon accustomed convictions unsupported by evidence. It also requires restraint not to interfere with the freedoms of others where they affect only themselves (which is the only justification for religious schools - and questionable!) Not your average US experience, or a religious one, I think!

Answer 2

No. Democracy doesn't work. It is just a bunch of people sitting around trying to make descisions and nobody can agree on anything and in the end no change is made. Trust me I've been a part of its system. Though it has some fruits, these fruits have long passed away, and a direct democracy is hard to find nowadays (and this was the only form of it that actually worked).

People say that the majority rules, but the majority is not always the most intelligent faction. However, it is important to die for its ideals if it is truly being threatened, because if TRUE democracy dies than humanity is forever threatened by chaos. Unfortunetely, the last time that true democracy was represented (in a war, at least) was in World War II by the Allies. No wars since then are in the name of true democracy, the human condition of peace and justice.

Answer 3

I am sad to say that I don't believe true democracy exists except as an Ideal, beautiful but not real, only an imaginary perfection. In the real world, it is never a single point or place, but rather a continuum. Some points on that continuum may be worthy of lives given but other points are merely corrupt charades and the lives given are but bitter and meaningless loss.

Answer 4

Yes, if it comes down to it, I would gladly give my life to protect our American Democracy and way of life. And I KNOW I'm NOT alone in that.


But the real question is:

What can we do to protect our hard-won democracy against the anti-American measures of a Neocon Administration that in its crusade against "terrorism" has ended up high-jacking the constitutional rights of our own citizens?

Hey, if we can ask tough questions, then we better be prepared to answer some, too.
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We can make fun of people's looks, accuse them of self-promotion, and call them names all we want, but when they have a point and are courageous enough to voice it, then we all better shut the $%&# up and listen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a30rJQbDDno
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Answer 5

I don't think it "Democracy" can be given to anyone, it has to be won by those who want it. I understand it is a rare gift our forefathers brought to this nation U.S.A I thin it is a stretch to believe our country and our government can fall to the terrorist. Watch that we don't fall from with in. I will fight on my ground for this country, we shouldn't be too willing to lose our freedoms in the interest of "National Security",

Answer 6

Hey Berry, I'm still back with Benazir. I guess she said, "Yes." I don't know that I have that kind of courage. Maybe that is why our heroines really are heroines. Maybe I could die for my children's freedom. All in all, though, I think I have enjoyed freedom so much and have come to take it for granted that sometimes I forget about the brave who have given up all for us.

Answer 7

Yes, but only if our country is being attacked.
I don't believe we need to be around the world fighing battles about other things.

Also, a firend of mine in the service told me that our country is often in danger, and we have no idea what our military stops.

If our land was being attacked, you bet I would fight to be safe and free. So, would most other people.

Answer 8

If I ever see a democracy I will check.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 9

now and lower back i've got self assurance like no one else on earth believes in an identical issues i do or sees the international in an identical gentle. although i think of all of us choose somebody to have self assurance in us. to no longer sound contradictory, yet believing in your self is plenty extra substantial than others believing in you.

Answer 10

Not an easy question there Goldberry.
But I guess I would want to ask all our soldiers and sailors that question.
And of the fallen, ask their mothers.