It is my view that "democracy"
Your's isn't shared by most people which makes it a lot harder if not impossible to spread the right ideas. Instead of clinging to a term insisting it means something most understand it not to mean, why not use a "clean" word to be able to better communicate? It is the sole reason why I vehemently insist that Bitcoin is not democratic.
Give up, man. You can't reason with Portnoy. Whenever he's asked to prove his beliefs, he changes the subject; if he is not indulged in this dishonest bait and switch, he throws a tantrum. What more proof does a person need to know that he isn't rational and he isn't trying to have a legitimate conversation about the topic?
LOL What beliefs? Why didn't you answer any of my questions? Tantrum? Who rushed to put me on ignore? And why are you still trying to shout me down with large cap denouncements while ignoring anything I might say in response?
And about hazek's statement about what most understand the word democracy to mean lets have look at the dictionary:
democratic,
1. Of the nature of, or characterized by, democracy; advocating or upholding democracy.
We can perhaps ignore the definitions that pertain to the specific political parties that go by that name.
democracy,
1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2. A political or social unit that has such a government.
3. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
4. Majority rule.
5. The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
Isn't this what most people understand it to mean? Where is the part about theft and oppression by an elite clique?
Remember we are talking about the word and its meaning here...
NOT about some government who calls itself democratic but really isn't. How many times do I have to remind you of this? And yet you hazek, say things like:
Just a suggestion if you really care about reality.. pay attention to how many people demonstrate and protest in the streets demanding that the government raise taxes, i.e. steal more from those who worked hard and got rich (calling it the democratic process) which is completely incompatible with the principles I outlined. There really isn't any need to do surveys, all you have to do is walk outside and look around.
I know about things like this. I take part in some of those protests myself about the abuse of power by the various governments of the world, like America.
I, and many others, protest not because America and Canada, where I live, are democratic but because they are NOT democratic. You talk about their crimes
and say in brackets: (calling it the democratic process)... And you let them say that... you let yourself believe, seemingly, that it is the democratic process.
Well by definition it is NOT the democratic process. I would suggest that most people do accept the dictionary definition and not the definition you and that
elite clique would like us to believe. Or do you want to switch it around and say rather than an elite clique it is mob rule? Those are kinda opposites things
aren't they?
And about 'mob rule' and 'tyranny of the majority' I mentioned things like constitutions and charters of rights and freedoms. Why not address that?
People are working together on solutions like that to improve democractic systems and to make the world a better place...
It is interesting and perhaps very telling that you and the others who denounce democracy have not suggested a better solution.
