Free Talk Live - democracy

The Majority That Wasn't: When 50% of the Vote Just Isn't Good Enough

RottingNation — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:26:40 +0000

A man won - or so he thought - an election with 52 percent of the vote. But city bureaucrats won't let him take his seat because of the strange way they define a majority.

The Real Lesson of Ballot Access Battles

libertyevolution — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:05:56 +0000

The duopoly-the Republican and Democratic Parties-claim to not agree on much, but they certainly agree on one thing: Only Republicans and Democrats are permissible candidates for election to public office.

Democracy vs. Republic; A former LEO's point of view

Phil Rogers — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:38:58 +0000

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...

5 Reasons Humanity Is Terrible at Democracy

Karrde188 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:02:19 +0000

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 ...