xXeMoxXxCoRexX said:
There's been a lot of hype in the media about the wonders of democracy, and it is often equated with such noble ideals as freedom, progress, equity, stability, peace, prosperity and even civilisation. But is this really true?
Short answer is YES, YOU FUCK.
The slightly longer answer is: Mostly yeah, but it's still a work in progress.
xXeMoxXxCoRexX said:
Under democracy, Australia and also America have come under the leadership of complete idiots, ie. Bush. Just because the majority believe someone would be a good leader clearly doesn't mean they're right.
A sign of a healthy democracy is debate. Ronald Reagan had a lot of haters - a lot of people like yourself thought he was an old, incapable fool, and yet he managed to give the biggest and longest economic boom in America, solving the 'unsolvable' issue of stag-flation, during his two terms, and had the balls to call the Soviet Union the 'evil empire'. My point isn't that Bush is a good president or a bad one, and as Gilbert1 has said that's irrelevant. Good presidents can come and go, just as bad ones can as well, it's democracy at work since people have the power and the freedom to choose on the whole for themselves.
The very fact that you're on here talking shit about democracy is ironically the very reason why democracy works.
xXeMoxXxCoRexX said:
Democracy has put the real power in the hands of the giant media corporations, because Murdoch et. al have power over everyone's opinion and can influence or even outright control how they choose to vote, what issues people are informed and concerned about, and what people are kept ignorant about.
That's fucking bullshit. And so under this so called media conspiracy that EVERYONE is under, how the fuck would you know this is the case? Are you some brave crusader out to fight the giant evil corporations, armed with the Truth and a Genuine Desire to Help Humankind? Please. You're living in a fantasy.
xXeMoxXxCoRexX said:
If democracy is supposed to be good for people, how come inequality is only increasing with time, with the wealthiest people continually gaining an increasingly large share of society's wealth?
Again, bullshit. You make it sound as if the poorer is getting poorer while the richer is getting richer. This is a half truth.
The poorer are getting richer. Everyone is getting richer. The evidence is all around. The only people missing out are the people living without democracy, and without capitalism.
Someone said the richest 20% of the world's population consume 80% of the world's resources, while the other 80% consume only 20%. This is bullshit too. As if the top 20% are <i>stealing</i> from the other 80%. They aren't. It's because they're <i>producing</i> 80% of the resources.
And if that still sounds bad? What was the situation 200 years ago? Even a 100 years ago? Yeah, not so bad anymore, is it.
xXeMoxXxCoRexX said:
Democracy has allowed the continual degradation of the natural environment, with massive issues such as Climate Change made to be of secondary importance in the public opinion to non-issues such as "interest rates" and "killing Muslims".
Ever heard of the tragedy of the commons? It was a communist idea that the land is everybody's. Sounds all great and romantic but in practice it became the most horrific and widespread environmental catastrophe in history. Whole bodies of water were systematically depleted of fish because for the fishermen, if they didn't catch the fish, someone else would. It became a race to grab what you could before someone else could. In an economy, it's in the interests of everyone to have these regulations and restrictions, because then they'll have a renewable resource and a more prosperous future. It's not in the interests of the fishermen of course, who have to limit their profits and thus complain loudly when anything is introduced, but it is to the rest of the country.
As for global warming, it's the same idea. It's not in the interests of anyone, corporation or activist, of having to deal with the potential dangers. Public opinion is that global warming is real, and companies have already reacted, and hopped on the bandwagon to go 'green'. This is only going to get better.
xXeMoxXxCoRexX said:
Most people are not intelligent, informed or educated, and as such not fit to determine the direction a country's leadership should best take. In other words Democracy puts power in the hands of those not competent to use it, who don't even have the slightest idea what's going on in the world around them.
Well no shit, people care about themselves and are too caught up in their lives to care. That's human nature.
xXeMoxXxCoRexX said:
I believe that because most people are so blind and selfish, we require a benign dictatorship to keep the masses' idiocy in check, and make informed decisions about the nation's future.
You think you're so superior to the fellow man, you think you should take that power away from him? Why? Just because you read Lefty Bitches Magazine? Democracy Now? Is it because you cry every time someone chops down a tree? You're sensitive? You "know" what's right? You can decide for your fellow man, you can decide what he wants? What he should get or what he shouldn't?
The point is everyone has their vote. Some are stupid, some are lazy. But that's got nothing to do with it. Everyone can choose to care or not. It's called freedom.
xXeMoxXxCoRexX said:
The alternative is an eternity of George Bushes.
You've spent less than two decades on Earth. Democracy originated in Ancient Greece, two millenia ago. You're ignoring so much history. So much progress. Freedom and liberty. Prosperity.
You know what? You're the ignorant one. You have no idea. You are a moron.
You sir, are the idiot.
I'm going to bed. I'm gonna give you another salvo tomorrow.
