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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
It sounds like JohnnyFlame is actually complaining about the choices, not about the idea of democracy itself. But it's a tree-in-the-forest kind of question: if you don't vote, do you live in a democracy? I sort of think the answer is no.
There aren't perfect choices--there aren't perfect systems. But you have to participate in the system to the extent you're allowed to, or it falls apart. Democracy is in a sense an oligarchy of the non-apathetic. Those who are too lazy to vote live in a dictatorship--even if most of the time they don't care.
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Rubbish. Cliche rubbish. I live in a democracy and it isn't falling apart. Is that because of the vote/non vote. Hardly people have voted less and less as they see what their votes put in place. They try and change things we really care about and we won't bother going to the voting booth to put them out. The elitists always think they are doing something special == yep we vote and keep this country or that one going. Nope you don't. The influence on your vote is controlled to a large degree by big money as is the agenda. Try geting involved and running for office. LOL you better have a sugar daddy behind you with a whole lot of cash.
The system needs a complete overhaul but you can't get elected unless you have cash and you can't stay in power unless you compromise what you believe.
No thanks. Everyone once in awhile I see some hopeful signs where guys are trying to put in campaign finance limits and etc. etc. but they always get smoked.
Our democracy has been taken over -- if there was ever a real populous movement to get us back to some actual democracy I could get with the program but exchanging one set of trough feeders for another isn't my idea of democracy in action.