A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government

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Permalink Reply by 3smn7ct05z5dx on July 1, 2012 at 7:23am

There hasnt really been a democracy on earth.

Democracy is an egalitarian form of government in which all the citizens of a nation together determine public policy, the laws and the actions of their state, requiring that all citizens (meeting certain qualifications) have an equal opportunity to express their opinion. In practice, "democracy" is the extent to which a given system approximates this ideal, and a given political system is referred to as "a democracy" if it allows a certain approximation to ideal democracy. Although no country has ever granted all its citizens (i.e. including minors) the vote, most countries today hold regular elections based on egalitarian principles, at least in theory.

Notice how it say ALL citizens.  What country asks ALL its citizns for their input on ALL subjects? NONE is the answer, therefore NONE have had true democracy.  There is representative and other "forms" of democracy, however as your blog points out they have not worked.  So to say democracy odoesnt work without an ACTUAL model to work fom for experience is sorts of silly dont ya think.  Perhaps we should try a REAL deomcracy where ALL are involved in the decisions from the smallest babe to the wisest old person.  THEN we can decide if it doesnt work or not.  Another point of failure you are attributing to democracy has nothing to do with democracy and that is capitalism, the very definition of is to screw the other guy for profit.  So we live here in north america in a dog eat dog capitalist society that pretends to be democratic and "for the people" when we have seen through proof that these two systems dont go together and arent even being used as intended.

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