Danoff
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Im losing my faith in democracy. How can democracy work when it requires people to vote at such an informed level?
Capitalism works through greed. It uses the knowledge than man has evolved greedy to create a fair and growth-producing economic system. The more greedy you are, the more you contribute to the world. Capitalism is our economic system.
Our government system of course is Democracy. Democracy relies on mans knowledge and understanding of the way our economy works. It relies on the fact that when wrongs are committed people will go out and vote to right those wrongs but also that they know what the wrongs are. It requires that people understand what the right answer is. And they dont! Theyre greedy! So they vote whatever is in their best interest - which destroys capitalism.
They vote to take money from the rich and give it to the poor. And because the vast majority of the people are poor they get their way. The result is a strangle on capitalism.
They vote to keep their illegal immigrant workers or to support their illegal immigrant families and the result is a chocking of the capitalist system.
They vote to force taxes on the minority rich to give themselves poorly regulated health care, food, medicine, and every other thing that they can think of that is required to keep them alive but which they should provide themselves. And they degrade the capitalist system further.
Democracy then encourages politicians to tell the people what they want to hear. That the rich are not paying their share and that thats why we have problems (never that were spending too much on you that would lose votes). The result is elected officials who help destroy our economy.
So how can democracy work when it doesnt take into account the nature of man, and what else is there? I cant think of anything more free and fair than democracy, but it doesnt seem to be working. Im losing my faith in our system. I don't like being cynical, someone please help me get it back.
Capitalism works through greed. It uses the knowledge than man has evolved greedy to create a fair and growth-producing economic system. The more greedy you are, the more you contribute to the world. Capitalism is our economic system.
Our government system of course is Democracy. Democracy relies on mans knowledge and understanding of the way our economy works. It relies on the fact that when wrongs are committed people will go out and vote to right those wrongs but also that they know what the wrongs are. It requires that people understand what the right answer is. And they dont! Theyre greedy! So they vote whatever is in their best interest - which destroys capitalism.
They vote to take money from the rich and give it to the poor. And because the vast majority of the people are poor they get their way. The result is a strangle on capitalism.
They vote to keep their illegal immigrant workers or to support their illegal immigrant families and the result is a chocking of the capitalist system.
They vote to force taxes on the minority rich to give themselves poorly regulated health care, food, medicine, and every other thing that they can think of that is required to keep them alive but which they should provide themselves. And they degrade the capitalist system further.
Democracy then encourages politicians to tell the people what they want to hear. That the rich are not paying their share and that thats why we have problems (never that were spending too much on you that would lose votes). The result is elected officials who help destroy our economy.
So how can democracy work when it doesnt take into account the nature of man, and what else is there? I cant think of anything more free and fair than democracy, but it doesnt seem to be working. Im losing my faith in our system. I don't like being cynical, someone please help me get it back.
