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They prevent liberation by selling you back your chains with populous rhetoric and slogans
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Electoralism is the greatest lie the Western population has been sold on, and it's so fiercely defended.
Even at their worst, a democracy is far better than a dictatorship.
The problem is, as it ever was, first past the post voting.
Condorcet warned us, but it was too late for the US to escape it by then.
"Anyone to my left wants a dictatorship!" - the pro-genocide center.
As opposed to the pro-genocide dictatorships of the East.
We weren't selling them weapons. We weren't running interference for them at the UN. Nice false equivalence in support of the genocide that centrists were actively assisting. Centrists have only one policy they won't abandon at the first hint of pushback, and it's genocide.
I didn't say anything about a dictatorship. A democracy isn't thousands of people propping up a single figurehead to "represent" them, time has taught us countless times all that accomplishes is a recipe for corruption. Democracy looks like people assemblies and congresses, people actually representing people. The fact that you and others saw my comment and immediately went to dictatorship actually really illustrates my point. The west has a lot to learn about democracy.
You said "the west" as if the other major option not "the west" wasn't a totalitarian dictatorship.
Also, local councils and assemblies exist in the US, and they have power, but not quite enough.
And they're correct, Westerners are just programmed to treat it as axiomatically true that foreigners are ontologically evil
Dictatorships are not their people, that's kind of the point.
Did you reply to the wrong comment, because that has nothing to do with what I said.
Only because you don't think that the lives of foreigners have value
Do you mean when both are at their worst democracy is better than dictatorship? Or always?
Dictatorships are evil. Full stop.
A broken democracy is still better than a dictatorship, for the simple reason that even a broken democracy can change with the will of the people.
A dictatorship can only ever change by the will of the dictator, and they are only ever in it for themselves.
Do you honestly think we have a "democracy" in the US. I mean, come on.