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If you are a believer in what is called a Democracy, your opinion is about to change. You see it’s quite simple. When it applies to the people in the private sector, no one believes in Democracy, which is defined as majority rule. It will be difficult to find anyone who would consider it to be an appropriate exercise of Democracy for 55% of the people to believe the remaining 45% of the population should be put to death and...

"You might think that democracies work best when people care and know about the key issues. But a new study argues that for a democracy to function at all, you need lots of ignorant people blindly siding with the majority."

Ask the average person what's wrong with government and you'll hear all about corrupt politicians, corporate lobbyists and shady backroom deals. But, of course, we elected those corrupt politicians, and the more you look at the situation, the more it appears that as people, we are just really bad at democracy. After all, science proves that ...

I do find it "odd" that here in show prep democracy is used in order to manipulate a liberty program. lol "Voting" up or down stories ends the free speech of the listeners who participate. Just one more popularity contest, i.e democracy at large.
There's that, and only having 3 votes in the "choosing." After that, the selection process doesn't work. ;)

"The Miami City Commission is set to consider a proposal next month that would prohibit unauthorized people and groups from feeding the homeless downtown, an ordinance proponents say will cut down on litter and ensure the safety of the food the homeless do eat."

According to Harry Reid, democrat and senate majority leader, american democracy is "the best system ever devised to rule the affairs of men and women." ...A powerful admission from a high-level advocate of political rulership and democracy. Best system indeed - none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who think they are free...

The idea that democracy works better when informed people vote would seem to make sense. However, the case for informed voting breaks down when we consider the difficulties of being well-informed about political options.

There's been some confusion on the show as to what the Venus project is. This video gives a good description of it. The Venus project is not a proposal for a political system of government, but a socioeconomic system. The Venus project, similar to the Free State project, is completely voluntary and its primary object, beyond developing its ideas, is spreading its message to persuade people to join it.

5 Reasons Humanity Is Terrible at Democracy

In the middle of the heated health care debate in 2010, the anchors at Fox News got a memo from the bosses telling them to start referring to the Democrats' plan as "government-run health insurance" rather than use the term "public option," which everyone else was using.

Why? Because CBS and NBC both ran polls showing that when you call it the "public" plan, up to 75 percent of the people are in favor -- after all, everybody likes public parks and public libraries, etc. It's a friendly word.