The opposite to a Western democratic state is not North Korea or Russia, but is no state at all. A democratic state is a certain form of dictatorship itself. It usurps power that it has no claim for, it's existence cannot morally be defended without getting pulverised by inevitable contradictions any such argument has, it acts and behaves criminally from A to Z, and it never stays at the sioze that it is at, but necessartily must grow more and more from the size of a newly created, just beginning democratic basic order to total and complete state and bureaucracy tyranny - you cannot avoid that.
That is unavoidable for sure, because the people, the plebs, demand from the state more and more services and nanny-deeds and financial benefits that politicians are all too happy to deliver (in order to get re-elected) even if they have no moral right at all to run the underlying redistribution (which means expropriation of the one and shifting that to the other: socialism pure and simple) or to endlessly print papermoney (which necessarily needs the killing of a value-based money worth the name and replacing it with a system of meaningless papermoney that is only unguaranteed bonds, notifications of somebody's debts - no representation of active material values), or by raising taxes (which needs all citizens being turned into completely defenceless and weak victims of the state) what backfires also against those who earlier demanded the state to do more for them. And so more antispcially wealthy get taxed even higher, and the number of people living on werllfare rises, and economic performances declines, initiative and self-responsbility gets demonised as lacking "solidarity", and all the PC propaganda bull to follow. And so it spins on and on, into the centre of the spiral, and there it forms a critical mass sooner or later, and then it goes Bamm! WWII formed up that way.
All this, and the very existence of any state at all is morally undefendable.
And you can see all that happening right now, in every single Western country, from Germany to the United States. Everywhere.
My reading tips of the day:
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INK: Christoph Braunschweig: Die demokratische Krankheit. Der fatale Teufelskreis aus Politkerversprechen und Wähleranspruch
LINK: Kenneth Minogue: The Servile Mind. How democracy erodes the moral life
Some quotes worth to remember:
"Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself! There was never a Democracy that did not commit suicide." - Samuel Adams
“If you put our federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there would be a shortage of sand. (...) We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work." - Milton Friedman
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
"A Democracy is the most vile form of government there is!" - Thomas Paine
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." - George Bernard Shaw
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Anonymous
"Give me control over a nation's currency, and I care not who makes its laws." - Rothschild
"We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough - we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much” - Ronald Reagan
“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." - Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship” - Alexander Tytler
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." - Winston Churchill