Why could democracy be considered a hypocrisy?

You don't see the word majority in there?

You don't notice that it has the same ending as totalitarianism?

Love the anti-intellectualism, though, really moving the world forward.

Oh quit being so Antidisestablishmentarianism. You're obviously just being floccinaucinihilipilification. Try to be a bit more Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

None of those words were used correctly and the last one has no definition 🙂

I disagree, every word was used properly and in context, especially the last one. Me don't no word big enoguh for "grow up." Then again, it might be lost on the "Mr. Webster" the word police. Grow up.

It's nice you can think that way and if nothing else, thank you for proving why neither anarchy nor democracy can work in the long term 🙂

Originally posted by Robtard
Representative Republic, would be the fairly accurate.

What xyz said though is the angle I'd probably go by if I had to write an essay about it....of course the "asking strangers on the internet to do my work" is always a good approach too.

Originally posted by Darth Macabre
Um, no, no I'm really not. If the United States was a pure democracy, you would be down at your city hall right now voting for every action that the State takes. You cannot compare a representative Republic with a democracy of olden days, where everyone is equal and has a voice, because that simply isn't true.

the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives

A representative democracy is still a democracy, the US elects representatives, who then partake in making law.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Some people think of mob rule as a good thing.

What if the mob wants to hang you up by your testicles because you don't think the same in regards to [e.g.] religion?

Originally posted by Robtard
What if the mob wants to hang you up by your testicles because you don't think the same in regards to [e.g.] religion?

The mob gets what the mob wants.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Representative Democracy and Republic. It surely is a democracy.

What xyz said though is the angle I'd probably go by if I had to write an essay about it....of course the "asking strangers on the internet to do my work" is always a good approach too.

Yes and no, as a true democracy is a mob rule, or in the very least, one person equals one equal vote, no electoral college and such. Voting in someone who you hope will carry your wishes is a democracy, but it's the diet-version of it, at best.

Didn't read it, what did the pasty English kid say?

When people say 'Democracy' in the modern day they mean 'represenative Democracy' which fits the definition for all modern Western countries unless you are being needlessly pedantic, so this debate over semantics is pointless.

(though that said- tsscis, you certainly used 'Antidisestablishmentarianism' wrongly. That refers to a point of view, so a person would have to be '-ist' in that context, not '-ism'. He could believe IN the '-ism' though.)

So to bring this back to topic- could the thread starter please properly define what question this thread is asking? Because it is not apparent and it that continues to be the case this thread will be closed.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
(though that said- tsscis, you certainly used 'Antidisestablishmentarianism' wrongly. That refers to a point of view, so a person would have to be '-ist' in that context, not '-ism'. He could believe IN the '-ism' though.)

he was speaking against removing the anglican church as head of Wales? 😕

Originally posted by inimalist
he was speaking against removing the anglican church as head of Wales? 😕

No, he was showing me how the average person is poorly educated and incapable of critical thinking.

A Brit, Canadian and Arab walk into a bar...

Originally posted by Robtard
A Brit, Canadian and Arab walk into a bar...

Originally posted by Robtard
A Brit, Canadian and Arab walk into a bar...

And an American ducks under it.

Originally posted by Darth Macabre
Um, no, no I'm really not. If the United States was a pure democracy, you would be down at your city hall right now voting for every action that the State takes. You cannot compare a representative Republic with a democracy of olden days, where everyone is equal and has a voice, because that simply isn't true.

Democracy isn't about that. It's about electing people to make those decisions for you based on what their political stance is. It's not about people telling their representatives how to vote in their parliments/house of representatives.

Give me an example of these old democracies though?

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
And an American ducks under it.

Na...The American takes the bar and beats the Arab to death with it.

Originally posted by jaden101
Give me an example of these old democracies though?

I think Athens actually did have a direct democracy. But only for men. Free men. Free men that owned land.

Originally posted by jaden101
Na...The American takes the bar and beats the Arab to death with it.

😂

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I think Athens actually did have a direct democracy. But only for men. Free men. Free men that owned land.

Oh snap, then at one point, America had a "direct democracy", those must have been the days.