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In response to "Long read, but good: How democracy has failed. -- (edited)" by znufrii

I'd argue that it has failed a test, but it hasn't failed. Tensions over how society is organised and who benefits and who doesn't are going to be an

Posted by Roger More (aka rogermore) Jan 13 '17, 12:01

issue in any society, and basically democracies deal with it by letting people have a say and authoritarian governments deal with it by dictating. The existence of these tensions doesn't mean that democracy is doomed to fail in the same way that, say, communism is doomed to fail. It's more that progress under a democracy is taking three steps forward, then two steps back. We're not used to taking steps back, so people are freaking out.

Plus, tinker with the electoral system - remove gerrymandering, non-partisan governance of elections, maybe no electoral college, etc - and the election would have had a very different result and no one would be questioning democracy.

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A fair critique, sure. I don't think the thrust of the piece is that democracy is unable to address these issues, so in that sense it is not a failure -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 13, 12:08 3
- Yeah, I'm taking issue with the headline and sub-header more than the article, which I think has more of a "we should look at our democracy with open - Roger More Jan 13, 12:16 2
  - Take that, Jesus Jones! -- nm - Reagen Jan 13, 12:42 1
    - *golf clap* -- nm - JaxSean Jan 13, 12:43

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