> Is democracy overrated?
No.
It's just that we haven't gotten through to eliminating the corrupting elements and anchoring this legally, yet.
Why? Because corruption (= ultimately money) protects itself.
No.
It's just that we haven't gotten through to eliminating the corrupting elements and anchoring this legally, yet.
Why? Because corruption (= ultimately money) protects itself.
Most people are literally not interested in everything around them and get mad when you start talking about politics. With people like this, democracies will fail. A living democracy needs involved and civilized people.
Imagine you own a company, but you can only change anything once every 4 years. And even then you only choose between a few groups of people from which to hire.
When the people hired don't do what they said they would you can't do anything till the end of that 4-year period.
I am all for more direct democracy (something like liquid democracy). We have the technology to eliminate middleman, but middle man doesn't want to be eliminated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wahlbeteiligung_Bundestags...
Maybe one answer is "because we don't feel enough pain yet". In this case, don't worry, the pendulum will swing back soon enough.
The concept of real democracy is still the best one we can get.
To me that just sounds like an underserved market waiting to be addressed.