(March 2, 2023 at 6:49 am)Belacqua Wrote:(March 2, 2023 at 6:07 am)GUBU Wrote: Not even that. Nine of those countries are either dictatorships or near dictatorships where the will of the people is not taken into account.
A study at Princeton University proved that the US is not a democracy, and the will of the people is not taken into account.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Good Article. But these article’s meaning is that the US is not some sort of Utopia or a type of Switzerland beyond the Atlantic and that there are still many issues to be dealed with in many areas.
One Example: NRA is pro-Gun. So thanks to the Republicans + all the Lobbying activities the voice of the people is not being heard.
Still: In Syria, if you took part in a protest, the Muhaberat (or secret Police) can pick you up in the street and never release you and if you are lucky your relatives will be able to recover your corpse in order to give you a proper burial.
Other example: There is no opposition politician in any democratic country who are forced to exile or are being treated like Alexei Navalny.
So this is not going to work. You can’t keep fooling and fooling and fooling. The very idea of democracy is based on the idea that at some point, even the most ordinary man will understand what’s going on. And if he/she doesn’t. Well I think you are right than, Than China should be our vision of a most efficiently governed society. But I think you are not right. I think that even with the most advanced propaganda or alternate-reality creating method, there are some limits. I even think that a country like Russia is already way beyond these limits.