Democracy fails
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It's not like it ever had a chance. The only way democracy would have stood a chance, ever, was if people knew what was good for them. That's obviously not the case.
Ten men
Take ten mature men (or women, if you prefer), of all intelligence levels and from all walks of life. In short, amass ten ordinary folks. Now say one of them is absolutely brilliant, a genius. Two of them are highly intelligent, hard-working, with a good grip on reality. Two others are just hard-working, physically strong individuals, decent folk that enjoy life for what it is. The rest five of them are not that happy working, not that brilliant, often vile and usually discontent, in constant need of guidance.
Now tell this folks that they should stop going about their business as usual and start a democracy. Tell them that they are all so significant society-wise that they should have an equally significant say in the matter of the one that should lead the whole pack. You instantly get a lot of happy, cheery, proud folks.
They then go ahead and have their say, by voting. As a bonus, tell them they can vote secretly. The genius refuses to engage in such activities and quickly devises a long term survival plan he tells no one about, then he's nowhere to be found anymore. The two highly intelligent guys vote for for themselves, obviously against each other. One of the hard-workers votes for one of those above-mentioned two, the other votes for himself, thankful for the secret nature of the vote.
Those five left quarrel for a while, as one tries to enforce his opinions on the others, two others are paranoid about their votes not being really secret and two others offer to vote for whomever gives them some food and beer. Finally, three of them go ahead and vote for the fourth, the big mouth spreading his views vehemently amongst them. The last gets killed in a brief fight over some food and beer that the big mouth also threw into the deal. Obviously, "big mouth" votes for himself.
Final results:
Big mouth: 4 votes (50%)
Intelligent guy no. 1: 2 votes (25%)
Intelligent guy no. 2: 1 vote (12.5%)
Not-so-brilliant-but-honest-and-hard-working-though-aparently-aspiring-to-become-more guy: 1 vote, his own (12.5%)
Absenteeism: 20% (with the runaway genius going on to offer his services to a high paying pharmaceutical industry mogul and one dead chap nobody cares about)
Big mouth wins. Landslide victory. Democracy at its best.
Look no further
Regardless what they told you and what they're going to tell you still, that's all there is to democracy: an idiot ruling eight losers. The rest is bull, and you know it or, at least, sense it.
Oh, the other "democracy", the idealistic one they tempt you with, the one involving people that know what's good for them, well, true, that's not a failure. Because it doesn't exist.
democracy • degeneration • politics
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