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  • Democracy is a failure due to the debt it creates bribing people.
  • Spongebob
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    Yeah, that pretty much sums up my view on things.

    TGIF! 😆

    TandemJeremy
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    Democracy? Show me one. We have a sort of pseudo democracy but its fairly ineffective

    djglover
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    So you were brainwashed by C4 last night then?

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    DaRC_L
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    i believe the term is a temporary (i.e. 5 year) oligarchic tyranny

    Stoner
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    Democracy is a failure… because it gives socialists the erroneous belief that they matter.

    epicyclo
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    We have the best democracy that Rupert Murdoch can buy…

    CountZero
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    Perhaps a North Korean would have a slight difference of opinion. Reading ‘Nothing To Envy’, by Barbara Demick might prove to be educational.

    Stoner
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    CZ I started reading that yesterday too. Loving it. What a brilliant book.

    Trimix
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    None of this matters if your rich.

    Or riding your favorite singletrack 🙂

    oliverd1981
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    “Disappointment for Some!” It’s hardly a election winning slogan. Unfortunately capitalism and Democracy have become intertwined. Ism’s tend to fail.

    MrKmkII
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    It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

    said winston churchill. correct, says i.

    Elfinsafety
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    Democracy is a failure… because it gives socialists the erroneous belief that they matter.

    Stoner, why do you have it in for Socialism so much?

    mogrim
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    Stoner, why do you have it in for Socialism so much?

    Probably cos despite upteen attempts to get it to work it never does?

    Elfinsafety
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    No no, let Stoner speak for himself please.

    Stoner
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    very, very simply, because to make socialism work to the extent that its advocates aspire to the price is social liberty. Socialism leads inevitably to hypocrisy through patronage. Socialism is never genuinely equitable because you cant stifle capitalism without going all the way to totalitarianism, and even then there’s still black markets, patronage and the distribution of goods by price.

    At the other end, capitalism, the price of liberty is inequality. There’s patronage too. But its not nearly as hypocritical.

    I think there’s a middle ground and pretty much we live it. We have some inequality but we retain a good deal of liberty.

    Im a libertarian. And Ill stand by that even if inequality is the price.

    I might hang around the thread if its worth the discussion, but Im not going to bother fielding pipe dream shouty shit from armchair socialists BTW.

    El-bent
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    Democracy is a failure… because it gives socialists the erroneous belief that they matter.

    It matters when it has to bail out Capitalism. All too often these days.

    We live in a plutocracy.

    Elfinsafety
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    Thanks Stoner.

    But I’m interested that you view Socialism as some form of absolute; that you can’t involve elements of Socialist philosophy in any idea of social and economic organisation.

    Im a libertarian. And Ill stand by that even if inequality is the price.

    So basically, you go along with what works for you, and sod everyone else? Dog eat dog, basically?

    Interesting.

    What do you do, if you fall off your bike and get mash-up and need emergency medical treatment?

    Stoner
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    So basically, you go along with what works for you, and sod everyone else? Dog eat dog, basically?

    Interesting.

    What do you do, if you fall off your bike and get mash-up and need emergency medical treatment?

    I might hang around the thread if its worth the discussion, but Im not going to bother fielding pipe dream shouty shit from armchair socialists BTW.

    night night ranty nuts. I have better things to do than argue with someone with the intellectual depth of puddle.

    jamferg
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    and someone disappears up their own arse..christ what a class A t*sser

    TheBrick
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    Way to win an argument, resort to name calling.

    Zulu-Eleven
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    Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Govern­ment, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…

    Pretty much sums it up I’d say!

    Elfinsafety
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    night night ranty nuts. I have better things to do than argue with someone with the intellectual depth of puddle.

    😆

    Knew it wouldn’t take much! Night night Stoner!

    Funny, that whenever challenged, Stoner always resorts to ad hominem attacks, and then flounces off in a hissy fit.

    Mind you, I’d expect that from someone without any courage in their claimed convictions. Mouth of a Hippo, balls of a shrew.

    Now then, this ‘Democracy’ lark….

    jamferg
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    Back to basics.. A Gov’t in power with 30ish% of the electorates crosses??

    allthepies
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    Which socialist governed country has it about right Fred, in your opinion ?

    Elfinsafety
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    Trouble with ‘democracy’ in this country at the moment, is we have a coalition government with one party completely betraying those who voted for them by discarding many of their election manifesto promises. Spineless bastards. Kind of invalidates this coalition, but what can be done about it, by the electorate?

    It’s a disgrace really. In business, you’d be done under the Trade Descriptions Act…

    jamferg
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    And then they try to drag the charade out for a guaranteed 5 years!…Thats a dictatorship talking..I would like to see them try.Riots like Toxteth et al would be on the cards.

    Elfinsafety
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    Which socialist governed country has it about right Fred, in your opinion ?

    Well, the post-war Labour government introduced such institutions as the NHS (Which Stoner obviously would never use as it’s ‘Socialist’), state pensions and free milk, to name just a couple of things, and they were probbly the closest thing Britain’s had to a Socialist government.

    See, I believe that there are elements of all sorts of political philosophies and ideals, which could be used together. You’re never going to have the ‘perfect’ system, as Human Nature simply won’t allow for that, but I feel we could definitely have a system that favours more people than the current one. Level the playing field, bring in a bit more equality, let people of all social backgrounds have a fair crack at things.

    Elfinism. It’s the only True Path.

    Only once Elfintocracy has been achieved, can Mankind have truly reached it’s Zenith.

    🙂

    allthepies
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    Which modern day country do you think has it about right ?

    Elfinsafety
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    Pfft, difficult in’t it?

    I’d say somewhere like Norway, where you pay high taxes, but receive top-notch services, where the gap between ‘rich and poor’ isn’t anywhere near as much as here, and where the proceeds from natural resources has been ploughed back into the nation’s economy, through state controlled industry, rather than into the pockets of private individuals. So, quite a good blend of Socialist and Capitalist policies.

    Relatively very small population and vast natural resource revenues do help, mind.

    Nowhere near as culturally diverse as the UK and many other European nations, however, and there are undercurrents of racism which have had a profound effect on the native Saami or Lappish minority.

    So by no means perfect. Bastard cold in winter, too, and dark.

    I’m not saying their system would work here, but it seems pretty good to me, from my visits there.

    TheBrick
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    TheBrick
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    There are many forms of capitalism and many forms of socialism. Political systems should be viewed as dynamic. Unfortunately I think the UK has been very slow to change and we are still too imperialistic and too short-termist.

    Kevevs
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    Are you **** nuts, who’d vote for you Elfin? with your crim record and Degree in basket weaving! You’d get some followers though, with that “police, follow this man” sticker on your back 😉

    TheBrick
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    P.S. This has a good diagram at the bottom. http://www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010

    Stoner
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    Elfinsafety
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    Ooh! I’m a ‘Libertarian’!

    Hey, Stoner, we can have a pint together now! Yay! 😀

    Elfinsafety
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    who’d vote for you Elfin?

    Erm, anyone who is sane? 🙄 It’s the only True Path. I know it, You know it; the World knows it.

    They just don’t realise it yet…

    nickc
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    ernie_lynch
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    That test is rubbish………it should have placed me as far more authoritarian 😐

    I diligently answered each question with the thought “what would Stalin have said”. So either the test is rubbish, or I’ve got Stalin down as a bit of a liberal…….didn’t think I had 😕

    Elfinsafety
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    Ha ha! Fascist!

    schroedingerscat
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    Conservative intellectual = oxymoron. Simply having learned a few long words parrot fashion doesn’t count,Unfortunately they are all too far up their own chutney tubes to realise that 🙂

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