The major flaw in democracy is really the banks. People are quite capable of voting out corruption - if they can see it.
#Bitcoin fixes the money, so banks are no longer needed, and all the corruption is exposed to daylight.
#Bitcoin fixes democracy.
that's a flaw but it's not THE major flaw.
this is the major flaw:
I think that's an effect, and I think banks are the cause. Banks are the front for the organized crime that is controlling the government.
even without banks, democracy is a system where a majority gets to rule over a minority.
That's why republic beats a pure democracy any day. But I still think we engineered America wrong - IMO the States shouldn't exist. It should be a confederacy of city-states, and I don't care if the cities are democracies or counties (as in Counts, not the retarded not-county-counties we have) or duchies or whatever.
city-states is better than states, but you still haven't gone down far enough. keep going...
once you hit the individual, stop. and then let them confederate up from there.
That's just democracy again
not if the individuals involved don't choose for it to be.
I think inviolable property is the way. I don't really think democracy can preserve property - its a feeding frenzy of the strong taking from the weak.
But moving from democracy (socialism) to private property (capitalism) is tricky. I feel like we're obligated to make an honest effort at fixing what we have.
I like Ibsen's take (forgive me if you've already heard this): "The minority is sometimes right, and the majority is always wrong." Of course he was exaggerating, but only very, very slightly/
IMO the major flaw in democracy is .. complexity creep.
I'd say it is a root issue out of which several other issues arise. Make the banking system complex and you'll get a large proportion of people/voters, who can't be expected to understand the principles of it. Now if many voters don't understand the basic principles of something, politicians / rich individuals / large corporations can come up with intentionally (or unintentionally) wrong explanations of the system .. which allows them to exploit those people who don't understand the system.
