This would resolve into a society where there are no laws, which is simply government by the richest/strongest/most powerful. Give capitalism free rein without the democratic element, and you end up with an entrenched elite running monopolies and cartels, and everyone else doing as they are told, and with no prospect of this ever changing.
Democracy isn't perfect at all, but it does provide at least an element of accountability for those at the top.
I think that generally I agree with you. BUT... We have capitalism
with democratic elements, so everything should be fine... But it isn't. Our democratic governments
are goverments of richest/strongest/most powerful. There
are elites running monopolies and cartels. And no, there
are not any element of accountability for those who rules. Well technically maybe there are, but it doesn't work. It cannot work, because same people who rules also decides about this element of accountability. We can say all this in simplier way - separation of government powers is one big failure... And then democracy as a whole is failure too.
Even the people who vote for the leaders has no right to ask about the leader's activity until their ruling period ends so democracy is just a form of temporary dictatorship but its better than compared to living in a non-democratic country.
I totally agrre with this. Problem is, how can we distinguish what is and what is not a democracy? Where democracy ends and totality begins?
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