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Why are some people brainwashed?
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Why do people believe that liberal democracy should conquer all and be predominant?
Have they been reading too much Fukuyama? In my view NO political system is inherently superior to another.
Have they been reading too much Fukuyama? In my view NO political system is inherently superior to another.
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If we lived under either of those governments this conversation we are having now would be grounds to have us shipped off to the Gulag or Concentration Camp.
Why are these 'freedoms' necessary? They are not written in stone that they must always be in existence.
Much of politics may be based on Western thought but try telling someone versed in Islamic political thought that democracy is grand. It's only in one's subjective view that it is.
Oh yes, every single night I sit down and read Fukuyama! I haven't even heard of Fukuyama, and I am not ashamed to admit it.
Perhaps people champion liberal democracy because they have an ounce of common sense?
All you have done here is strengthen my view that you life everything you say from political theory books.
Democracy is no better or worse than any other system. NO ONE here has given a reason as to why it should be superior.
Sadly that wasn't the case with Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Pinochet, Hussein, etc.
Here is a reason: Other forms of government have been proven time and time again to fail, socially and economically.
Don't joke about being shot knowing Mono's views he'd be after you with an AK47 before you could say homicidal maniac...
They haven't.
the fact i can slag my leaders off and show them the red card tells me i am living in a much better political system than i would be under say, the family of suad!
why cannot one thing be better than another in the dark wee corner of your imagination?
Do you mean Facism , which ended up causing World War 2 , or mabye Communism , which was responsible for the death of millions in Russia and a Cold War which darkened most of the last century?
Please name the types of government that havent failed.
However there are some commen features to facist ideologies:
(1) an extreme form of nationalism which insisted that human beings were sub-divisions of a larger national whole which alone could give meaning to their lives.
(2) social Darwinism, which insisted that struggle between nations was natural and inevitable.
(3) the 'science' of racism, which constructed a hierarchy of races and branded some, including the Jews, as inferior.
(4) anti-positivism, the idea that human beings are motivated not by logic and reason (as the philosophers of the Enlightenment had said) but by myths, intuition and emotion (as Romantic thinkers had believed).
Read that , and then tell me that Facism is equal in any way to the Democracy we live in.
Tell me, have you ever studied politics? Who told you that democracy is superior?
In my mind, it's best to look at ALL political ideologies with an open mind. ALL political ideologies have flaws; only a fool would state that democracy is perfect.
Why does anybody have to have told him, me or anybody that democracy is "better"... why can't we have come to that conclusion by ourselves.
To steal a quote "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"
Of course it is. I haven't studied medicine yet my knowledge of the human body would not be as great as a doctor's. There nothing wrong in such an estimation.
of course it is and of course they do. the ideas behind communism were very commendable, just didn't seem to work in real life.
In Russia at the moment, the Communist Party is set to win a majority in the next elections. If they come into power within the present shambles of a democracy that Russia has at the moment, who knows what will happen. Maybe they'll work at ridding the country of its right-wing mafia, that would be a good start!
the best form of government in any country is obviously going to be the one chosen by the majority of the people living there.
I never contradict myself.
Though it's better than being a hypocrite.
Majority? Why the majority? THAT'S the flaw in democracy.
The incident I pointed out shows where you contradicted yourself quite clearly.
Would you be so kind as to inform us what your ideal form of government would be?