Re: "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." Justice Louis D. Brandeis
- From: mg <mgkelson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 21:05:09 -0800 (PST)
On Nov 8, 6:02 pm, wil...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Will Janoschka) wrote:
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 21:56:18, mg <mgkel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 8, 7:42ÿam, Werner <whetz...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
The Soviet Union was democratic with much higher voter participation rates than here. All wealth was concentrated at the Politbureau at the Kremlin.
I doubt if there's a better system than democracy to maximize freedom,
other than no government at all, like Somali, for instance. However, a
country can have a democratic system, but the government can also be
very corrupt. Russian, for example, has one of the most corrupt
governments in the world and is listed way down as 154 on the
corruption list, close to Iran, which is also a democracy which is
listed as 146.
Here's a list of the best countries in the world for lack of
corruption. Denmark is the least corrupt and the U.S. is listed as
22nd on the list which means there are 21 countries in the world that
have less corrupt governments than the U.S. does:
Denmark
New Zealand
Singapore
Finland
Sweden
Canada
Netherlands
Switzerland
Australia
Norway
Iceland
Luxembourg
Hong Kong
Ireland
Austria
Germany
Barbados
Japan
Qater
United Kingdom
Chile Belgium
United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
Why do you insist on defending "Democracy"?
Elections are meaningless!
Most on your list has a Monarch or the equvalent!
Monarchs want for nothing, so can spend most of
the time swatting nasty misbehaving earthling children!!!
BTW, Nothing in our Constitution prevents a Monarchy.
It does prevents an Aristocracy, which is what we have
now, less titles of course! -will-
I don't think Singapore, Hong Kong, Barbados, and Qatar are
democracies and yet their governments all rate as being less corrupt
than ours. Now there's food for thought for those who like to wave the
American flag and claim that we are perfect and the rest of the world
is flawed.
Russia, incidentally, isn't actually considered to be a democracy.
According to Wikipedia, it's listed as a "hybrid regime" and a
combination of "federalism, semi-presidential system, bicameralism".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
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