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Citizens in a democracy vote for a government, if they like it they reelect it. As it happens in Colombia where Uribe is very well-liked and he gets reelected easily any time he runs. So he represents the opinions of ordinary mortals. Those politicians who do not please the will of the people eventually get kicked out of office. It just takes longer than we would wish.
No, that is false. Have you ever come across the concept of the lesser evil? People in a democracy tend to vote for one form of government because they dislike the other options given to them more.
And it is a majority who elect a government, not the citizens as a collective, nor does the election process actually represent all the citizens, as only a fraction of them choose to vote or are eligible to vote.
One part of the essay particularly caught my attention:
It seems to me that the author is confusing ends and means. For a given ends, some means are demonstrably more effective than others at achieving those ends. That does not mean that some ends are demonstrably more worthy than others.
Freedom embraces all other ends because it allows individuals to choose their own ends. There are good and bad choices; The choice of means with respect to a particular end. There are no inherently good and bad choices of ends.
No they vote for a puppet.
Once again, you’re wrong, the people who make the decisions stay put, perhaps the face on all of this gets changed every four years but that’s about it.
So if the Democracy behaves illegally or tyrannically, the people just have to suffer for it until the next election cycle, then hope they can defeat the incumbent?
Ruben, you’re brushing up against the inconsistencies and errors in conventional thinking. We’re arguing, only because you won’t give in to what you (at least instinctively) know is true.
Democracy is mob rule by 50%+1. It has nothing to do with social justice, it has nothing to do with what is right, it has nothing to do with law. It is merely the many, imposing their will on the few, without the flexibility of being able to assert their will in between electoral periods.
If you favour liberty, you cannot favour democracy. They are by definition, incompatible.
Today, being election day, is a great time to learn how democracy really works.
Consider the following scenario with two ice cream cones, one onion-flavored, the other zucchini-flavored.
- You are forced to eat one cone or the other; you can’t have neither.
- Even if you prefer one flavor, you may be forced into eating the other.
- You have to work in an ice cream factory for years to pay the guy who “gives” you the cone.
- When you finally finish it, the process repeats again and again until you’re dead.
Sound familiar?