What is Democracy?

Democracy is basically polite totalitarianism.

 

In before we get the lecture about " we are a republic and not a democracy".

 

Democracy vs Republic - Difference and Comparison | Diffen

 

Me ? I thought it was dumb when, in March 2020, we woke up to a democracy that wouldn’t allow us to open our businesses, send our kids to school, attend church, comfort our dying or bury our dead. I don’t know. Maybe I’m just cantankerous.

 

Par for the course from a guy who's claimed monarchy is superior

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...natives-to-democracy-violence-stop-opponents/

A significant share of respondents question if democracy is no longer a viable system of governance; 31 percent of Trump supporters said America should explore alternative forms of government to ensure stability and progress, compared to 24 percent of Biden supporters.

The survey was conducted from Aug. 25 to Sept. 11 with 2,008 registered voters. It has a margin of error of 2.2 percentage points.

 

Have we ever had this open embracement of political violence defined by party? Started by......trump. jeesk he encourages it.

 

Not if you accept the idea that you can make up a new definition for any word you want

 

You can depose one bad tyrant. What do you do with a million ?

 

Not by one of the major parties, at least as far as I know but we’ve never had anyone like trump or the current GOP

 

guess it depends on your motives. If the intent is to advise/remind people they aren’t under mob rule aka 50%+1. Then yes it’s important. If the intent is to muddy the water and conflate with intent to deceptively move away from electoral college then no.

 

This is just nonsensical unless you believe one person with absolute power is somehow weaker than a million people with a very small amount of power equally distributed, but you are that guy who believes that. Seems easier for one guy to close your business in a pandemic than a million people with different interests who will disagree for all sorts of reasons, but again, but maybe you can pray your king thinks exactly the same way as you, but you definitely have no control over that at all!

 

Would you rather face one bad guy, in an alley, or a million ? Seriously, I can’t think of a stupider belief than democracy = individual freedom. Well, maybe belief in people as deadly disease vectors.

 

It does, I think. Voting itself doesn't necessarily equal a democracy or a republic.

 

What if the one guy had a .50 cal machine gun and the million could only use feather dusters to attack you?

 

“Democracy is a system where parties lose elections”

that’s pretty great