Assessing the limits of democracy 25 Articles

by Patrick Julius

There is some truth to the old adage, "Democracy is the worst form of government-except for all the others." Certainly democracy has a wide variety of flaws, and if you think even the concept of rational voting itself is p...read more

by Leonard J Sherrott

Years ago democracy was described to me as the right to vote in an election. In later years I came to appreciate that it is also about having the right not to vote. In our state of Victoria, Australia during the last...read more

by melias

Here's an Idea. Over the past few weeks as the presidential race for party nomination heats up, a lot of questions have been brought to light in both the news and everyday conversation. From immigration reform to the Wa...read more

by John England

Question? What is the obsession with democracy? Now that is a very loaded question and some people may find it off putting and redundant. I would imagine that initial reactions to this question might be, why wouldn't I ...read more

by Wiliam Hocutt

The (Un)Fairness Doctrine Leading Democrats are calling for a return to the Fairness Doctrine that would require that every conservative talk show be balanced with a liberal talk show. I don't see any Democrats saying the...read more

by Olufeyimi Tosin

democracy is the government of the people by the people and for the people democracy is an idea this idea has help man to rule himself, democracy has exist for a long time because it is the only way to govern ourself but ...read more

by Kyle Dorian

Dictatorship....an angry man's dream Democracy... a drunken man's dream Why do I say this? Well because although democracy is sound in concept, it overlooks one fatal element; that we are human. A perfect democracy c...read more

by Matthew Brendal

An orate parchment signed by 56 founding fathers. Although having the vision as if standing on the shoulders of giants, they could not see everything. In those days they were enlightened gentlemen. They wanted freedom to ...read more

by David Jones

rigged elections? What would that possibly have to do with the limits inherent to democracy? Or the general incompetence of the electorate? these things DO point to limits of the practice of democracy, but do not at all im...read more

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by Olivia Bredbenner

I feel as if my intelligence has been insulted,seeing cots in the photo of what was to be an overnight debate on when and how to bring our men home from the Iraqi .If you have ever been up all night with a sick child ,you ...read more

by George Boyd

We have never been given a clearer picture about the "limits of democracy". Deceptions by the leaders have exposed the limited effectiveness of our Constitution and Bill of Rights as well as our system of "Checks and Balan...read more

by The Hitchhiker

Ha. Well, there are various problems with democracy. One major one is (as a rather clever chap called Plato pointed out), what do the "common" people know about politics?! They'll vote for the candidate with the nicest ...read more

by Joe DeShon

The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once mused "Democracy is a system ensuring that the people are governed no better than they deserve." He was right. The irony of democracy is that we don't always elect the best p...read more

by Patricia Cabaniss

There are more people who do not vote than those who vote. Perhaps that is true. But apathy is created by years of politicians who all say what the people want to hear and then year after year systematically refuse to do ...read more

by Donald Pennington

Many modern, good, friendly, neighborly Americans live under a myth that we live in a "Democracy." It just simply isn't so. Nothing could be further from the truth. America was founded and designed as a fully function...read more

by AMERICAN MAN

The only limitation is a LIE in evolution and all those who promote its transition knowingly(Bush) are TRAITORS of the Nations peoples, whose stature is diminished, in the eyes of a most candid world, more and more every m...read more

by Farmer Bob

If I lived in a democracy then the answer would be to limit voting eligibility to me. Of course, no one lives in a pure democracy, nor would most want to. An example of why is: in a pure democracy of 5 people, 3 men and ...read more

by M.L. Bushman

In this American experiment, what we have is a Republic where we, the governed, are represented by whatever politician we were duped by the media into voting for, or not voting for, as the case may be. We are told, ad nau...read more

by TLW

A democratically elected government should be a fairly accurate reflection of the society that created it. This is a double-edged sword. Where a society is apathetic there is no pressure on a politician to adress that is...read more

by Franco Hanekom

For all intents and purposes democracy is supposed to be the antibiotic that will cure all societies ills. What are we to do if this isn't so? where does this great need come from to give all people liberty, equality an...read more