Democracy and its faults

Ursprungsartikel:
http://vastarvast.blogspot.com/2009/01/democracy-and-its-faults.html


As Churchill once said:

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Like Churchill I do think there are problems with democracy. One being that people use their vote to vote for politicians, who promise to raise their standard of living by increasing taxes for the wealthy.

Another is that people can use the vote to vote for people like Hitler, ie. a vote to abolish the right to vote in free elections.

A third problem is that since women got the vote, politics have turned sharply to the left.The same effect was achieved, when the blacks were allowed to vote.

As William F Buckley once stated: The problem is not that not enough blacks are allowed to vote, but that too many whites can vote.

What did democracy bring to South Africa?

What did it bring Turkey?

Iraq? (Reply: sharia and a shia government.)

Still, what's the alternative, at least here in the West? The American form of government, a constitutional democracy, was meant to hamper direct rule of the voters thru so called checks and balances. Two chambers of elected, the House of Representatives and the Senate. And, of course, the Supreme Court, to protect the constitutional rights of the citizens, if the senate voted for take them away.

Still, there is a huge immigration problem, the business class (big business, Wall Street) are 90 percent traitors who want amnesty for illegals, who want to bring in foreign labour, which competes with Americans and make them unemployed and lower their wages.

The American form of government hasn't stopped the growth of federal power at the expense of the formerly sovereign states. It didn't stop the establishment of the Federal Reserve nor the federal income tax, nor the New Deal.

So, I'm certainly aware of the problems of all sorts of democratic governments. But what's the alternative?

Testing of the voters knowledge? That people who don't pay taxes shouldn't be allowed to vote? That the more tax you pay, the more additional votes you get?

Dictatorship à la Pinochet? A monarchy? Plato's rule of the philosophers?

As long as there is real freedom of expression (and not like here in Europe), there's always the possibility to influence public opinion, and get it behind you, even if it does take time.The last amnesty effort by Bush, McCain and Kennedy was defeated thanks to grass root activities, such as the Minutemen movement.


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