I’d just like to add that a pure democracy is only a legal form of anarchy (and yeah, there is a sliding scale for democracy, I do get that). Instead, a well-functioning democracy still needs people who represent the needs of the many, regardless of whether the many vote for those needs or not. Else we wouldn’t have taxes (very needed), schools, roads, and fire departments.
Heck, people vote against their own interests all the time. Look at all the poor people voting against medical and food support because they hate other kinds of poor people too much.
well-functioning democracies ideally have a number of safeguards to protect against bad actors-- the US has been being sabotaged from within for decades. Frank-Dodd, Glass-Stiegel, and many other regulations and oversight agencies repealed and gutted… this has resulted in massive corruption. that was the point.
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except all of the others that have been tried.”
– Winston Churchill
I’d just like to add that a pure democracy is only a legal form of anarchy (and yeah, there is a sliding scale for democracy, I do get that). Instead, a well-functioning democracy still needs people who represent the needs of the many, regardless of whether the many vote for those needs or not. Else we wouldn’t have taxes (very needed), schools, roads, and fire departments.
Heck, people vote against their own interests all the time. Look at all the poor people voting against medical and food support because they hate other kinds of poor people too much.
well-functioning democracies ideally have a number of safeguards to protect against bad actors-- the US has been being sabotaged from within for decades. Frank-Dodd, Glass-Stiegel, and many other regulations and oversight agencies repealed and gutted… this has resulted in massive corruption. that was the point.