On Democracy

Three thoughts.

1. Fascism is more honest than liberal democracy – fascism doesn’t hide who the true leaders of the nation are. Fascism also doesn’t fool the masses in thinking that they, instead of a powerful elite, run the nation.

2. Democracy is such a wonderful approach for running human groupings that it is not used in the military, not used in business, not used in academia, and not even used in professional sports. In any human endeavor where winning is essential, hierarchy is observed and democracy does not meaningfully exist. Indeed, as point one suggests, liberal democracies don’t actually practice real democracy either.

3. Looking at the historical cases that came the closest to true democracy, like ancient Athens, political participation was limited to the most capable and responsible element of the population.  When considering republican forms of government that utilized true democracy as much is realistic in such a system, like the early American republic, political participation was likewise limited. Indeed, limiting political participation is likely the only way that any system even somewhat approaching true democracy could ever be viable.