RE: Democracy fails...
March 15, 2015 at 9:06 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2015 at 9:24 pm by mralstoner.)
(March 15, 2015 at 5:21 pm)lifesagift Wrote: Living in a democracy sounds fab, until you let in lots of people who have lots of kids and they all have different ideas to you....Democracy is increasingly looking like a failed model. So, there's definitely some tweaking or major surgery required.
Can you tweak democracy, so that the 'invited in' majority don't get their way on laws and things?
China is laughing its ass off. The West traded with China with the expectation that it would liberalise/democratise. Now their favourite adjective of the West is "miserable". Hard to argue.
The answer is probably not to look for a model. That's the wrong approach. It puts the cart before the horse.
The requirement of any sane civilisation is an educated population. Educated people will always find a way, with or without the right model of governance.
If you think of your population as school children, then you'll know they're in need of structured and comprehensive guidance. Good propaganda, if you like.
You reap what you sow, and if you don't feed the people's minds with good ideas, bad ideas (or no ideas) will fill the vacuum.
If you want to be practical, in the here and now, then something like an immigration pause might be good e.g. the USA drastically cut immigration after WWI and it apparently fostered assimilation.
But if you have an overwhelming foreign demographic (e.g. Muslims in Europe, Hispanics in USA, Asians in Australia) then your goose is probably cooked. They will probably act with a tribal mind, and there's not much you can do about it, except to start a secession movement or something like that.
Probably what you want to foster right now is the mindset of independence (economic, cultural, security, etc) i.e. preparing your like-minded people for survival for when/if the West collapses or balkanises.
