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Subject Democracy doesn't work
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"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis de Tocqueville

As more countries reach this point where voters simply go out there and elect politicians who take from those who have and who worked for their wealth and give to those who don't, but who organize and get their people elected in promise of benefits, I think we should ask if democracy makes sense.

I find it crazy that someone who is willfully and voluntarily dependent upon the government for their sustenance is able to vote with the same standing as those who are funding that government. Such an imbalance can only lead to economic tragedy, and yet this situation worsens not just here in the US but in many places.

With the limitations of the republic having been stricken over the last two hundred years, becoming both corrupted by the money given to the state and campaigns, and the changes in voting from both suffrage acts and making elections more direct, these may have been victories for democracy, but what have they done to America?

The last election is all the proof you need. Whether or not you believe the alternative has any ideas, which history has shown it doesn't, the truth is both demographics and results show a growing majority who will ask for government to care for them, and suggest any attempt to change this at the ballot box is a fool's errand, doomed to fail under the weight of numbers.

Am I wrong?
 
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