What is the future of democracy? If it a realistic option?
The problem with a Democracy is that the powers of the majority are absolute and unlimited. Many times this leads to a type of tyranny majority that rules over the minority. In a Democracy the minority does not have much to say because what they majority says is the law. Where can you go to challenge a law in a Democracy? Nowhere, in a Democracy the majority has all the power in the world, as long as votes are decided by 50% + 1 then majority rules.
A Republic on the other hand is not simply rule of the majority. It is nowhere close to what a Democracy is. In a Republic we have a government that has constitutionally limited powers that are limited by the Constitution itself. A Republic actually protects the rights of the minority, but not only the minority, it protects the rights of the individual.
What the United States of America has for a system of government is not a Democracy but a Republic.
I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.
As you can see the Pledge of Allegiance has the word Republic in it and not Democracy.
I believe that the biggest problem with a Democracy is the rule of the Majority. It is really easy to see in a Democracy how it can become corrupt really quickly. It would take one time that a corrupt politician was elected and then to keep himself in office he would just pass hand me downs to anybody that voted for him.
Alexander Tytler said:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
Alexander Tytler
It is real easy to see how a Democracy can is truly a bad form of government. In a Democracy there are no checks and balances.
I believe that Democracies are doomed to fail right from the beginning. There are two problems working against a Democracy. Problem number 1 is government and problem number 2 is people that depend on government. I look at government as a cancer or a leach, I don’t think I have ever seen a government program be shut down or repelled. In fact what you usually hear when a government program is not working is to throw more money into the program to make it work. This in turn leads to a very loose fiscal policy with the people wanting more money throwing more money at the politicians that will get the money to them. Sooner or later a nation will run out of people to tax or services to tax and will run out of money. When this happens you can see how things can get from bad to worse.
In short I believe Democracies will fail where ever they are tried. As soon as the majority gets a taste of what they can vote for themselves it is all downhill from there.
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