Is democracy sustainable?

No... that's why our founding fathers created a democracy.


The majority is always persuaded by propaganda, which leads to maniacal power hungry people ending up in power disobeying the law, because the masses want it. Fear is a very useful tool in democracy.

I meant our founding fathers created a republic

Who knows, they haven't tried it yet.

what democracy?

there is no country in the world that employs democracy, not one!

No capitalism is synonymous with a democracy and
capitalism will fail because of infinite growth and
finite resources.

We are not a Democracy...we are a Republic.

A republic which morphed into one of the
'leading democracies' - appearing to show
a few cracks in the structure now, eh!

The maniacs do seem to have the power
which is ironical given the initial intent -
to empower ALL the citizens...

There are technologies that can be employed that would let mankind have infinite resources if used correctly however TPTB do not want that. They want a world full of slaves.

Who are 'they'?

The charades continue ad-nauseum, eh?

Every country on earth

Can the market operate differently?

Is there a more natural alternative?

No the economic structure and government structure are two separate things.

A republic that actively spreads democracy, eh?

Why not spread republicanism?

No, democracy (and republic) are the easiest types of government to subvert.
All the ones in the American continent have already been.

The life Expectancy of a Democracy.
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh
had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent
form of government.

A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.

From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.

During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back to bondage.”

It will take a collective effort to change this...

The 'Re-Abolition of Slavery'

You are kidding yourself.

What if we applied market forces
to our government(s)?

Not only there either.

Is this cycle unbreakable?

the economic problems today are the fault of the fiat currency, not democracy

Life itself is barely sustainable, who cares. We kill our prophets.

Ahhh...that is the question isn't it?

One does not need to point out an alternative to know
the current syistem will fail.
Anarchism/hybrids are the future.

No. They created a REPUBLIC... NOT a democracy.

That's a very specific use of the word republic.
The rest of the world calls it a liberal democracy.
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