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Originally Posted by komitsuki
What is true democracy, by the way?
The American model – democracy – must be regarded as a historical error, economically as well as morally. Democracy promotes shortsightedness, capital waste, irresponsibility, and moral relativism. It leads to permanent compulsory income and wealth redistribution and legal uncertainty. It is counterproductive. It promotes demagoguery and egalitarianism. It is aggressive and potentially totalitarian internally, vis-à-vis its own population, as well as externally. In sum, it leads to a dramatic growth of state power, as manifested by the amount of parasitically – by means of taxation and expropriation – appropriated government income and wealth in relation to the amount of productively – through market exchange – acquired private income and wealth, and by the range and invasiveness of state legislation. Democracy is doomed to collapse, just as Soviet communism was doomed to collapse.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe's "Demokratie. Der Gott, Der Keiner Ist"
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Are you subscribing to someone else's ideology rather than forging out your own? Come on man, just READ that paragraph and a rational mind will see all that's wrong with it. It's a classic case of tunnel vision.
Let's all just keep in mind that Democracy--which has been implemented in countless other societies to great success--is an idea that came from humans. Humans are imperfect beings and as such imperfections are bound to arise. Live with it
If you don't like it, go live somewhere in Africa, the Middle East, China, or North Korea where you don't have any need for silly things like freedom.
There's a reason the United States has historically been called "the Great Experminet"!