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Anakin

posted 05-09-2002 11:49 PM    
Honestly now.....is there a way to perfect Democracy?

The United States has so many problems....what are we to do?


Graysith

posted 05-10-2002 06:34 AM    
As with anything, isolate. "The United States has so many problems" is rather broad; narrow this down! List specifics, and then we can discuss possible answers on an individual basis.

As for perfecting democracy... like communism, democracy can be an ideal state if allowed to run as it is supposed to run. But Man's greed gets in the way.

That's the root of the problem, greed and commercialism. Especially greed: commercialism springs from it. I haven't a clue what to do about human nature, though.

"Oh you say you want a Revolution? Well you know, we all wanna change the world...."

[ 05-10-2002 06:40 AM: Message edited 1 time, lastly by Graysith ]


Padme of Hidden Lake

posted 05-16-2002 10:21 AM    
Yeah GS is right - human nature as it is will never let us have a perfect state - or any form - Utopia just can't exist in a world where people give in to greed and we will never have a world with out greedy people in it - human nature won't allow it - animal nature won't allow it - as all species do have thier form of greed which kills off some in other species but we just try to keep most everyone a live through it - and ours has gone beyond the greed for things needed to survive to Money - and alot more of it than is neccessary...

Rogue Angel

posted 05-17-2002 06:04 PM    
Democracy, rule by the people, only works when the people actually care about what happens in the government. I think apathy about government is one of America's biggest problems, right up there with serious moral decline. Every citizen needs to be informed, to be active in politics, to make their elected representatives responsible for their actions. If you don't speak up, you're not going to get heard. I hoped that people would take a more active role in government after September 11, but it hasn't happened. As yet, I'm too young to vote, but I'll vote in every election as soon as I turn 18.

If anything is killing American democracy, it's apathy. People just don't realize that government affects them too, that there is something beyond their own comfortable lives. I wish I knew some way to change this disturbing trend...