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Re: The Wussification of America continues......
Posted By: Galen Williams (c-68-55-204-200.hsd1.md.comcast.net)
In Response To: Re: The Wussification of America continues...... (Arthur "Superman" Jones)
Date: Sunday, April 15, 2007, @ 7:25 a.m.
"You said:
“Deomcracy only works if the people who vote aren't mostly idiots.”
Democracy is a noun, a noun is defined as a naming word: a word or group of words used as the name of a class of people, places, or things, or of a specific person, place, or thing."
Democracy is a general term for a democratic government and the society within which is exists. "The democratic process" is the mechanical mechanism where the people vote, the old leadership steps down in an orderly and peaceful way, and new leadership assumes power. If you study history this is really quite a remarkable achievement. The vast majority of power shifts involve someone, usually a lot of people, dying.
So you are correct that even if a bunch of idiot voters elect an idiotic dysfuctional government "the democratic process" has worked. However, the government it produces will not be functional and the result will not be favorable to the majority who voted them in and so "the democracy", i.e the system of government, will not be working. Socrates himself pointed that out. I hope we can agree that he had some clue about democracy.
Besides, in the case of the US, I think there is a strong argument that "the democratic process" is not working all that well but that is a different discussion.
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