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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
oh no no no. i didn't allow this to happen. i'm for participatory democracy and i've always participated when given a chance. i don't just sit there ignoring everything.
see with democracy you always have recourse-- with tyrannies you have none, unless you bend over to the will of the great tyrant. oh man you need to live under a dictatorship to fully appreciate democracy, flaws and all.
the problem with anarchy is that eventually it devolves into tyranny, because a power block develops & swallows it all. anarchies generally don't splinter-- if they do it's temporary until some kind of strongman takes over.
apathy is the problem. hands in pockets are the problem. doing nothing because "all is fucked up" is what allows this to happen.
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but democracy was flawed from the beginning as only in name it is "the people's governments", it was made so only an elite of people could vote.
actually, the best thing you can do with democracy is to null votes since another major flaw of democracy is that abstinence is not taken into account when counting the votes. when abstinence happens, it should be counted to say that there's a segment of the voters that don't believe in any opposition. of course, the people in power make them see abstinence as a sign of laziness and apathy (sure, some people don't vote because of this). the reality is that the voters mostly don't have the motivation (none of the candidates speak to them) to go out and vote.
of course, i don't advocate tyranny and dictatorship, that's like the worse that can happen, and yes, you are right that democracy is the lesser of all evils. but still, it's mediocre to not have a government that lets us be at our fullest.
anarchy got splintered idologically, with some people leaning to the right and left and everywhere imaginable, divided and conquered. sure, true anarchism is as utopian as socialism and comunism, that's why i said it's a transitional form, but at least it nullifies the power struggle and the cult of personality that comes with being the leader of a country. it spreads the power so it seizes to be a popularity contest.
while anarchy is best of all, even it is a transitional form of government, bottom line is, new ways of government should have bend/should be developed.