09-15-2022, 11:47 AM
(09-15-2022, 02:47 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(09-14-2022, 09:55 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Yes, they do happen slowly. But given the choice between the two systems ...
I'm certainly not going to advocate for a Chinese style authoritarian government here...
But there are more than two choices...and our government is far from an example of things working well---even from a democracy standpoint.
It's up to us to vote in people who will do the right thing. Our political system definitely enables us to do it. This is not a problem with our system of government (as much as I would prefer PR) but voters with opposing views -- and those who don't bother to vote -- may sometimes cause the resulting government to take actions contrary to what we would like.
Quote:Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…