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Old 01-13-2008, 17:29 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Dr Fu Manchu View Post
Singapore, Russia and China are good examples of democracy being over-rated. It doesn't have to work all the time for all the countries. Absolute democracy is mob rule.
Absolute democracy is the election of leaders to rule for a specific period of time.
As Feanor points out, democratic citizens don't get to vote on what colour to paint a tank, that is the job of the government.
Mob rule, on the other hand, is mob rule. Chaos, anarchy etc etc, not democracy.
Because democracy isn't overly-represented by Russia or Singapore is not an argument that democracy is over-rated sorry.
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