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Originally posted by Odin88
Personally though, I think deMOCKracy is becoming a joke. Anyone who thinks the 'people' rule America (and other such nations - i.e. Australia, France, etc) are ignorant. Those few who are rich and powerful control us all. It is sad, but true.
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A century ago many people had the same critiques that people do today. You can really get ancient and read Plato. He had some of the same critiques of Democracy that are popular today something like 2400 years ago.
In the past two centuries there has been a meteoric rise of
liberal democratic states in the world. From 3 in 1790 to many dozens today (at least 60).
What are the alternatives to representative government? It's one thing to say that a system is not perfect but quite another to propose a viable alternative.
To anyone that thinks democracy hasn't improved and become more egalitarian in the past few centuries, I ask whether you'd like to go back to a world where there was a denial of the right to vote to women and minorites or whether you'd like to go back to a world where slavery was popular. I don't.