Yours truly:The problem with democracy: rule by the Idiot Majority.
Dave Hodges:The problem with democracy is calling the thing a democracy when it’s really a plutocratic oligopoly. That is, misidentification. What you think is A is in actual fact is B.
Can there be such a thing as democracy outside of a plutocratic oligopoly?
You cannot separate these two things, I think. What creates the quality of the people in government that facilitates the type of education in the public of which you speak?...[snipped from a post in "The Hezbollah & Israel" thread] But like anything else, it can only work as well as the people in it - which is why I thing the number one priority of any government should be education. The quality of the people in the government is more important than the exact structure of the government.
With my initial question, I was looking to explore the arbitrary economic boundaries such a system imposes upon a society within which it may exercise what is apparently considered its democratic voice. The issue of education is a very big on for me, also. But I hardly see anything coming of it in what you seem to still hold as a democracy when the said democracy values much more its economy and wealth and divides it up in a manner thus far incomprehensible to anyone who sees the magnitude of poverty and its consequences in the wealthiest of countries.
I cannot write more on this at the moment, but it is definitely a subject I too think about.
I will get back to it ASAP.
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