This is democracy, it doesn't mean it's perfect. It's just a tool to keep a lot of people in line. It's the HOW that matters, which is what life finally is about.
Being a crazy authoritarian guy with power of life and death over each of your citizens is one. No government at all is the other extreme, which finally leads always to another crazy guy.
In between there is an ocean.
...and putting everything in the same pot is mostly wrong, but lately it's cool to be anti-everything.
Is it a democracy when theres a whole class of people who can take over the political apparatus?
Is it democracy if a group of people totally coopt the electoral process by cultivating all the candidates and their policies behind the scenes and then present a few issues for us to bicker about?
Democracy is supposed to be everybody.
And you may say "but you can pick the person and representatives". But often these are already cultivated by the rich OR the political apparatus has been so corrupted that picking them does nothing.
Not only cause you can't influence policies after you vote, so that voting essentially becomes a pinky promise you make with the candidate. But also because the rest of the govt is so corrupted that an individual candidate, even if independent, is gonna have a hard time working in favor of the people.
You say in between theres an ocean, but for analogy purposes, what can the Millions of us do in an ocean if we don't have a boat?
Being a crazy authoritarian guy with power of life and death over each of your citizens is one. No government at all is the other extreme, which finally leads always to another crazy guy.
In between there is an ocean.
...and putting everything in the same pot is mostly wrong, but lately it's cool to be anti-everything.