Topic: Democracy or Dictator ship ? - page 5. (Read 2749 times)

If the leader is responsible, competent and respects humanity and morality, I'm good okay with dictatorship. But when it is a tyrant, egoistic and selfish leader, then democracy is my bet.

Government of a country as long as it can provide prosperity for the people is a good government whether it is run in a democratic or dictator ship.Good government should always prioritize the interests of the people. But for me personally prefer to democracy ship because people and government can cooperate in governing the government .

Every country is different that's why you cannot simply decide that dictatorship or democracy is better. Some countries need democracy because of the leader that are not listening to their people and on the other hand some countries has citizens that wants to put total control of the country to their leader.

If you check the relevant data, you will quickly find that people do not choose their leaders through voting.

They are voting on the surface, but ultimately they are influenced by media and electional ad campaigns.

You can verify this by checking the amounts of money that different candidates or parties spent for their election campaign and comparing it against the amount of votes they got.

This has only started to change very recently - due to social media. But even with social media this premise still holds, it's just less obvious and very difficult to check.

I think democracy is much better than dictatorship. With democracy, people can choose their political leaders through voting. The people can also oust abusive ones by uniting for the said goal. Dictatorship can also be great but only with a good leader who puts the people before himself. The amount of power given to one individual is way too risky though. The probability of a dictator turning into an abusive leader or a tyrant is always high.

I completely disagree with your claims. The worst democratic system is better than any dictatorship. Because, Dictators are manipulating society for their own sake and they do not respect any human beings except themselves. On the contrary to this, people are precious and respected by their own governments in democratic regimes.

Absolutely correct. The 2016 POTUS elections are a prime example. The division of the population in to two opposing camps were never so much obvious. Representative democracy has been a failure in the United States. Apart from triggering the division of the population, it has also lead to some below the belt tactics, such as gerrymandering and ballot stuffing.

And like we see in Britain, with Brexit. Time to divide these nations (USA and Britain) into several smaller countries... and ultimately, to make each person his own country.

Hey, that's the way the USA and Britain were set up... The USA with Amendments 6, 7, 9, and 10, which give everyone the right to reject any or all government... and Britain with Queen's Bench (court), which gives them the right to do the same as the USA.

That's one of its flaws, even in ancient times. That's why it has been called "tyranny of the many". Socrates was deeply critical of direct democracy - and rightly so, it got him killed. Representative democracy was created to avoid descending into mob rule but it is far from perfect as well and can end up with the population divided into camps, like what we are seeing now in the US.

I remembered way back 1960's if I'm not mistaken the President of our country was implementing dictatorship, but even is like that he did so many things to our country and even up to now all He did was being used by His citizens nationwide, and He is so very intelligent and wise. But after He gone on His position the one who took his position was replaced by the leader who implemented democracy then after it happened the situation of our country's economy became doomed to all citizens. But now the president was really good and had the same characteristic of our former dictator President before in 1960's.

Democracy is just a round-about way to dictatorship. Here's what happens in a democracy to make it a dictatorship, and then anarchy:
1. The voting majority rules over the minority like a dictator;
2. The elections set some people in office who rule over everybody else dictatorially by making their laws;
3. The laws are made, and are turned into codes by people who interpret the laws as they wish. So they dictatorially rule over the officials in government office;
4. The codes are passed along to enforcers like police departments, who interpret the codes in any way they want. So, they are dictators over the people.

The result is that the things that both the majority and the minority had wanted in the first place, are totally tossed aside. What is left is a hodge-podge of interpretations by law enforcement, each enforcer of which acts like Judge Dredd whenever he/she does anything. The few cases that make it to trial are further messed with by the judges. And it is all a racket to steal money from the common people.

In other words, democracy, dictatorship, and anarchy all turn into the same thing... loss for the people.

The libertarian way is to get rid of all the laws, and let people do whatever they want. But if any man harms, or directly and maliciously threatens his neighbor, only then is he punished. His first punishment is to pay back to his neighbor 4 times the damages that he did to his neighbor. A jury of 12 competent people decides who is guilty.

If anybody intentionally cause the guilty to be released without paying, or the innocent to pay when he has done no wrong, then that person must pay back 10 times, and should be treated with dishonor for the rest of his life.

Don't believe me? Just look at the thread, ISIS is nothing compared to U.S. cops, at https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/isis-is-nothing-compared-to-us-cops-1543343.

Democracy unlike dictatorship has to do with a government being under the direct or representative rule of the people of its jurisdiction. It gives the people freedom of expression. So, I would go for democracy.

 

Talking about the welfare of the general people, i like democracy because it has to do with political freedom and equality.

for me democracy, because it is giving every one the right to express their selves and to do what ever they like that is under the law.

Pure democracy may be a good thing. Pure democracy means giving power to 100% of the people. But modern democracy is not like that. Sometimes 40% or even less votes are needed to win an election. And if an ethnic group comprises 40% of the population and votes en bloc for a particular political party, then that party can afford to ignore the remaining 60%.

History is only progress and moving to democrasy

Democrazy is the death of people.

I'm for dictator ship. Coz it's the most efficient way to create idial society. Sure, guys

I'm not saying that degrees don't help you gets jobs - they do. But they teach you nothing, waste everyone's time, and create a bunch of clueless kids with degrees instead of highly competend and self-sufficient professionals. And yes, I agree that US colleges cost way too much. I wouldn't even waste my time going to university without a full scholarship in the US.

Where do you live? What you describe usually happens in developing nations (we dont need to talk about the 3rd world) and in certain industry nations - actually only in the USA.
The difference of education in the USA depending on institution is like day a night (compare ivy league vs state schools full of blacks and mexicans). Such a difference doesnt exist in any other industry nation.
(This is actually one of the main reasons silicon valley wants people from outside - avg american is just too stupid/uneducated)

I can promise you that you can get a job everywhere with a west/north european university degree (STEM).
Additionaly it cost way too much to study in the US (above avg. College)