I’m not a political person but here goes: Is democracy actually crap in practice?

For sure the equality and freedom of it sounds impressive until the awkward fact raises its head that people might be voting on legislation and legal practice they may not have the mental capacity to understand or a bias that makes them blind to the issues.

Should people pass a qualification to give them a voting right or should everyone get to vote no matter how stupid, unhinged, racist or religious they are?

Thoughts?

And I’m talking about the world, not America so any grubby memes or replies promoting one party or another will be deleted as quickly as it’s received.

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dale74 · M

Well first of all democracy is one vote shy of Anarchy. The United States is a Democratic Republic which is totally different than the democracy the only similarity is the people still vote but in a Democratic Republic the rule of law makes it to where a simple majority can't change the law. With a democracy if you have 50.1% of the vote you can change any law you want you can make all women slaves you can make all of One race asleep with just 50.1% of the vote. In a Democratic Republic you have the law that must be triumphed. In a Democratic Republic if you wanted to make slavery legal you would have to have I believe it's a 70% vote in both the house and the Senate and it would have to be signed by the president.