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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
"It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of Government except all the others that have been tried"
- Winston Churchill
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Oh these never changing reflexes.
Now think that through. The last part of that sentence ("except the others...") often is mistaken by people to be a defence of democracy by relativising the criticism of the first part. But it isn't.
What Churchill did by these words, was this: slamming ALL forms of governments by declaring them all as unsuitable.
Churchill also said this:
The best argument against democracy is having a five minute talk with just any ordinary voter.
Who wnats to vote, should have pri8vate prooerty at stake. He should contribute more to the community than he gets back from it. He should not live by it and hang on itsa drip. He should be qualified and educated enough to oversee coplex economical, fiscal and other poltrial issues of high complexity and information density.
That's why I finally found a personal position of being against a general right to vote. If you let every uneducated unqualified incompetent dillettant Peter and Paul vote, you get uneducated, incompetent, dilletant politics. No surprise.
In the first German federal state, the SPD and the Green - in an attempt to battle massive rates of desinterest and loss of voters by cosmetical manipulation of statistics - have lowered the voting age from 18 to 16.
It is so very easy to look through this underhanded move.