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ruveyn
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08 Dec 2010, 4:56 pm

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Democracy will automatically lead to a dual system. Even if you have a dozen of more focused parties, they will calculate and combine to have better chances to turn into a majority that will win. How to address complex issues in a binary system?

Oversimplification is just the effect of a this system and most of the people like simple choices.

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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

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Democracy is two wolves and a sheep sitting down at table and voting on what to have for dinner.

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08 Dec 2010, 6:11 pm

ruveyn wrote:
SuperApsie wrote:
Democracy will automatically lead to a dual system. Even if you have a dozen of more focused parties, they will calculate and combine to have better chances to turn into a majority that will win. How to address complex issues in a binary system?

Oversimplification is just the effect of a this system and most of the people like simple choices.

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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

W. Churchill


Democracy is two wolves and a sheep sitting down at table and voting on what to have for dinner.

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LOL sad but true. It's the masses that have the true power, not the privileged minorities (unless the state of society is so messed up the masses allowed it to become that way). And definitely not the disadvantaged minorities...



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08 Dec 2010, 8:05 pm

On the one hand, Animal Farm; but on the other hand, the story of the Lion, the Hyena, and the Hare [not to give a plot away, the hare is the only survivor - brains over brawn and numbers.