Is democracy always the right choice? #democracy #politics #martinjacques

Is democracy always the right choice? #democracy #politics #martinjacques #intelligencesquared #iq2 #intelligencesquaredplus

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[stephensuddick]

Maybe not. But it is ALWAYS the aspiration of the people.

[nathanielziering]

Plato answered this question 2000 years ago with “The Trial and Death of Socrates.”

[garymaclean]

A 'FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY' is the only political form of government where there is an attempt at the people having a fair say in how they are to be governed.
That states, like the Soviet Union collapsed and failed to have a proper revolution where their people rose up and put in place a democratic government of their choice, is not a sign of failure of democracy itself. Rather is was the result of the oligarchs in power seizing their control of the failed government, and putting in place a dictator who shares their ideals of their hierarchy controlling government.
Yes, if there isn't the ability for a failed nation to overthrow their government, and replace it with an effective democracy, this sort of power-grab is likely, instead of a democratic government.
The issue is, what are western democracies supposed to do? No one nation can intervene without being seen as trying to impose their authority. Perhaps a UN intervention could be successful, if all the UN Nations would be able to agree...

[eliasmontanez]

Representative democracy (republicanism) is the worst kind of democracy because it still concentrates political power in the hands of a small group of people.

It is baffling that in most of our political conversations no one else brings more effective types of democracy. If we want a dynamic and adaptable country, we need a government that is ran from the bottom-up and not from the top-down.

[oblivicmonarch]

Well, i wonder what happened to the democracy of Germany after ww1 🧐.

[juanajanel]

1991 that’s when the “Soviet Communist” collapsed. Get your facts Mr. Prescher!

[cdean]

The Tories have given up the whole project.

[christianosminroden]

Democracy actually and universally IS the best political system that has been suggested so far, at least as far as they‘re widely heard about.
HOWEVER, it only works if a number of requirements are being met, without which it‘s almost inevitably going to fail eventually, one of which is a general public that is well-educated generally, but especially in regards of politics and societal issues, rather than a school system designed for producing willful „exploitees“ for the wealthiest fraction of society, and another one is an economic system that does not inherently entail both an incentive and an opportunity to undermine it, which is exactly why and how a capitalistic economy is basically guaranteed to successively turn a democratic system into a pseudo-legitimizing stage show for what increasingly becomes a plutocracy in effect.

[gurusansarsinghkhalsa]

First time I watch an Overton window as it starts to open

[FujiworldmarketGiftBaskets]

We should never lower expectations simply because we don't have the universal key to unlock the possibility of high-mindedness and its inevitable favorable result. Government is and will always be the training wheels of democratic principles and ideals.

[easypimpin]

So his argument is in favor of authoritarianism? Lmao. How about no.

[ulicadluga]

Russia never had anything remotely resembling democracy. The plutocrats and militarists chose authoritarianism and totalitarianism.

And, this is the slippery slope other, yes also western "democracies" are on - a slippery slope towards authoritarianism and non-cooperation as evidenced by Jan.6 and Brexit.

[michaelcochran]

It Sam like a nother word of dictator or they 1 thing China think there God

[yelleryoung]

Yes.
To do anything else is regressive.

[LeftWingNationalist]

First of all if you don't support regions inside your country to have the right to hold a referendum between union with your country or independence then I fundamentally don't consider your country a democracy.

Scotland v UK
Catalonia v Spain
Chechnya v Russia
Taiwan v China
Palestine v Israel
Crimea v Ukraine
Kosovo v Serbia

and many more regions with independence movements. How can one place call them a democracy if a union between people is not always voluntary.