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Plato was right!!
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For all people who think that the government should what the people demand, then let's kick all Jews out the country!!
Let's lock up ALL socialists!! Fuck all dem Muslims and ship 'wm home!
If the people demanded these things, should a government do it?
Plato was right! Democracy IS the tyranny of the majority!!
Let's lock up ALL socialists!! Fuck all dem Muslims and ship 'wm home!
If the people demanded these things, should a government do it?
Plato was right! Democracy IS the tyranny of the majority!!
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But if democracy is just a specific kind of state’s structure where the governing are elected by the governed on regular basis it exists, flourishes and smells.
Liberal democracy is a sop to the people, little more. It has a value of nothing. The people "decide", then are ignored for five years whilst the selected elite (red or blue) plunder the country.
The Commies and Socialists rape the country just as much as the hard-nosed neo-liberals.
And your idea would be even more distinct if you mentioned right-wing fundamentalists and hard-nosed neo-cons.
They are in no way better.
In a pure democracy the majority can get its way on anything!
Groups like the KKK (who advocate loose majoritarianism) would want all blacks in the US to leave, based on 'democracy'.
Pardon my ignorance... but didn't Socialism come about a lot later than when Plato was writing?
Are the KKK that influential on political groups?
And your solution is ...what? Unfettered capitalism? Fuck that shit. :mad:
I think the point is that this is what the majority of the people would want now.