RE: Who Would You Vote for, Trump or Saunders?
June 24, 2019 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2019 at 5:47 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 24, 2019 at 5:15 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Then why do we want democracy, over something else, if it isn't improving the odds of good decisions, and ensuring good governance? I know a lot of people get cynical and jaded as they get older, but we're still supposed to work our hardest towards utopia. Instead of just not being as bad as we could have been.
Because democracy makes it slightly more likely we will avert really bad governance. If you think chasing after hypothetical good governance is more important than averting bad governance, go live for a while where governance is bad, or just come after a few years should trump win another term.
But the hypothesis that democracy does have that one redeeming feature of averting bad governance is being sourly tested now, and the theory of what you should do in a democracy that you just propounded just weaken my hopes even more that the hypothesis will survive the test.
