is the only stable and fair political system. However, are there countries that do not have democracy and are still managed fairly and successfully?
In todays political arena there are no forms of government that are "fair" and stable that I'm aware of. While some governments do seem to do better than others they all have their flaws and corruption its just a matter of to what extent. At least with Democracy you can remove those in office every 2 to 4 years if you don't like them but in other types of governments you can't. There's also freedom of owning your own land, speech and right to bear arms which few other forms have established.
" Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy ".....Ernest Benn
Well, you didn't give definitions for fair and success... But anyhow, it is the economy stupid, so yes, there are a few arab Kingdoms that have happy citizens, due to their wealth...
Are we really taught that??? If so, that's too bad. What we should be taught is that Democratic nations are better at self correcting relative to non-Democratic nations (who have to resort to violence of one kind or another). Both systems are unstable and unfair. It's really about being self-correcting. See, we stopped having that option when we handed our freedoms over to an unelected Federal Chairman who can set the price of money at will. Why would a Democratic people do this? Well, maybe because people, sucking as much as they do, prefer stable to fair. Sure, they're going to get neither, but, people are pretty f*cking dumb so whatchyagonnado? What they really secretly WANT is to live under an authoritarian alpha-male telling them what to do all day long. Then they can manage to think even less than they do already (which isn't much). I'd even argue people are getting trapped deeper and deeper in our language creating ever more layers of bullshit to live under. Meh.... I digress. In short Rule #1: Sheeple likes thems a Farmer-man. Rule #2: Sheeple will eat feed pellets and lick Mr. Farmer-man's hand even as their being led to the Promised Land/Slaughter house for the Slaughter. That's the nature of People. They're dumb-ass sheep. AS we speak, the Farmer is sharpening the ax, you can expect to be Slaughtered soon Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Self-correcting, very inciteful!!!!! Aww so wealth, if the they can hand out the candy, the people will behave? Are there any countries without wealth who run well without democracy?
The United States runs pretty well without democracy! It is a Republic. That form of government is also fair for the most part. A Democracy is when the people decide policies, such as in town hall meetings. A Republic is when elected officials decide policies. How come I am the first person to say this after 6 answers.
GREAT TRUTHS 1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams 2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain 3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain 4. I 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 5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw 6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -- G. Gordon Liddy 7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994) 8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University 9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian 10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French economist (1801-1850) 11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan (1986) 12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers 13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J. O'Rourke 14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764) 15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! -- Pericles (430 B.C.) 16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866) 17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. -- Anonymous 18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan 19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill 20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain 21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903) 22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress. -- Mark Twain 23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995) 24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson 25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop FIVE BEST SENTENCES 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealth out of prosperity. 2. What one person receives without working for...another person must work for without receiving. 3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. 5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because someone else is going to get what they worked for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!
Are we talking about the same USA? You think the USA runs well??? Where? Yes, most people mean Republic when they say Democracy. We've probably be better off with a Democracy in many ways.
