Democracy is always bad. The majority of the population will always side with the elites. There is a reason why leftists pushed for democracy in the first place. Overall, democracy is more advantageous to liberalism, some brief bouts of right-wing populism once in a while notwithstanding.
Agree. One way I think about it is that a government is necessarily a hierarchy of control, with the rulers on top and the citizens on the bottom, and leftists like that. Democracy is just a way to give the people on the bottom some power over the people on top.
But as such it is always just a kludge. A fix, not a different system. And since the people on top have the power to get more power and make themselves unaccountable, the democracy is just temporary at best. It will always decay into tyranny. Top leftists understand that.
The top always rules over the bottom. The problem is that pretending that isn't the case allows for the worst kinds of people to be at the top. If we recognized hierarchy in a healthy way, the top would treat the bottom fairly. But because we pretend that the top and bottom are the same, then the top takes advantage of the bottom because we are all allegedly the same. It also allows the worst of the bottom to force out the best of the top.
I don't know of any country (Specially Canada) that currently has a 'Functioning Democracy".
The 'formerly Communist countries of China and Russia seem more responsive to their Citizens' demands than do the governments of Western and specially Commonwealth countries.
I mostly lay the blame for this at the feet of 'Entitled' Western Citizens, who nolonger value freedom enough.
Yes. I think this guy may be a communist but he has some pretty surprising information about common law and how the will of the people is expressed in the government in China.
Democracy is always bad. The majority of the population will always side with the elites. There is a reason why leftists pushed for democracy in the first place. Overall, democracy is more advantageous to liberalism, some brief bouts of right-wing populism once in a while notwithstanding.
Agree. One way I think about it is that a government is necessarily a hierarchy of control, with the rulers on top and the citizens on the bottom, and leftists like that. Democracy is just a way to give the people on the bottom some power over the people on top.
But as such it is always just a kludge. A fix, not a different system. And since the people on top have the power to get more power and make themselves unaccountable, the democracy is just temporary at best. It will always decay into tyranny. Top leftists understand that.
The top always rules over the bottom. The problem is that pretending that isn't the case allows for the worst kinds of people to be at the top. If we recognized hierarchy in a healthy way, the top would treat the bottom fairly. But because we pretend that the top and bottom are the same, then the top takes advantage of the bottom because we are all allegedly the same. It also allows the worst of the bottom to force out the best of the top.
Great essay. We're attacking the same problem.
I don't know of any country (Specially Canada) that currently has a 'Functioning Democracy".
The 'formerly Communist countries of China and Russia seem more responsive to their Citizens' demands than do the governments of Western and specially Commonwealth countries.
I mostly lay the blame for this at the feet of 'Entitled' Western Citizens, who nolonger value freedom enough.
"The 'formerly Communist countries of China..."
Yes. I think this guy may be a communist but he has some pretty surprising information about common law and how the will of the people is expressed in the government in China.
https://jerrygrey2002.substack.com/p/china-is-more-democratic-than-the
Always the big lie.