1300 Class
Pam Poovey's Stunt Double
Lately I have been thinking concept of democracy. In perfect democracy everyone should equal and everyone's should have equal power when deciding what to do. But that really doesn't work. That would soon become anarchy and chaos. Switzerland is maybe most democratical country in the world, because there every major decision is decided by referendum. That might be OK for the Swiss, who are small neutral country surrounded by friendly countries. But it would be hard to use same system in countries like USA, UK, Germany or even minor ones like Australia.
Representative democracy is system what we use, but giving power to the parliament (and president or Prime Minister) practically gives them free hands to do what ever they want for next few years. It is said that everyone can be candidate to become a MP, but it really isn't so. And in reality party leaders decide how parliament is going to vote, if you vote too often wrong way in parliament, your party will pressure you to vote the right way. So it's really few people who rule the democracy. IMHO parties are like oligarchs, party leaders get the best positions in government and may dictate practically everything. So is it truly democratic that few people decide everything?
But giving people more power is also problematic, because most people aren't too smart when it comes to this. They can be easily manipulated by good speaker, like Hitler. They really doesn't care about politics and doesn't even want to know about important issues, as long as they have enough money and have a car or a house, or whatever version of societies dream is currently in vouge. They decide things by feeling, not by reasoning. They might think something in one day and next day their opinnion might be totally different, that wouldn't be good way to run a state.
I think that whole concept of democracy is problematic and needs redefinition. Any thoughts?
Representative democracy is system what we use, but giving power to the parliament (and president or Prime Minister) practically gives them free hands to do what ever they want for next few years. It is said that everyone can be candidate to become a MP, but it really isn't so. And in reality party leaders decide how parliament is going to vote, if you vote too often wrong way in parliament, your party will pressure you to vote the right way. So it's really few people who rule the democracy. IMHO parties are like oligarchs, party leaders get the best positions in government and may dictate practically everything. So is it truly democratic that few people decide everything?
But giving people more power is also problematic, because most people aren't too smart when it comes to this. They can be easily manipulated by good speaker, like Hitler. They really doesn't care about politics and doesn't even want to know about important issues, as long as they have enough money and have a car or a house, or whatever version of societies dream is currently in vouge. They decide things by feeling, not by reasoning. They might think something in one day and next day their opinnion might be totally different, that wouldn't be good way to run a state.
I think that whole concept of democracy is problematic and needs redefinition. Any thoughts?
