Democracy - It's all about the toast.
I have a few problems with democracy.
First of all, it's hard to spell. Seriously, with 10% of the population having an IQ under 80 (see previous post) you'd think they could have come up with a simpler word for it. And it's too easy to confuse with Demoncrazy.
Secondly, just because the majority votes for something, it doesn't make it right. The majority could be a bunch of racist, homophobic, sexist motherfu**ers. Worse, they might be aliens, or zombies.
Thirdly, if there's more than two things to vote for, the majority might not even be the majority. Let's say the gov't initiates a make-work project to create jobs and stimulate the economy, so they decide to build a Really Big Thing. Not only will building it create jobs and use goods and services from the local economy, but people will come from miles around and pay to see the RBT, because we'redumb curious. The problem arises when it comes time to decide to paint the RBT. What colour should it be? Well, let's say they narrow the choices down to red, green, and blue (because that's the left over paint they have from when they built the Really Expensive Thing). For those of you playing along, that's THREE choices. So, right off the bat 40% of the people don't bother voting. Of the 60% who do vote, 30% vote for red, 40% vote blue, and 30% vote green. So, democratically the RBT will be painted blue, even though 60% of the people don't want it blue. And remember, that's just 60% of the people who voted. In actual fact, out of a hundred people, that means the RBT is now blue because roughly 24 people voted for it.
To make matters worse, those 24 people may have voted for it only because they were coerced, cajoled, and/or bribed to vote blue. Maybe some special interest group offered them all toasters to vote blue. Americans seem to have a thing for toast, seeing as every bank seems to give them away for opening an account with them. "I was just about to open an account with that bank across the street—you know, the one with the better interest rates and operating hours? But yours has free toasters!" Come the zombie apocalypse, our new currency will no doubt be toast. You heard it hear first.
So ultimately we end up with a Really Big Blue Thing because 24 people wanted a new toaster.
That's democracy for you.
First of all, it's hard to spell. Seriously, with 10% of the population having an IQ under 80 (see previous post) you'd think they could have come up with a simpler word for it. And it's too easy to confuse with Demoncrazy.
Secondly, just because the majority votes for something, it doesn't make it right. The majority could be a bunch of racist, homophobic, sexist motherfu**ers. Worse, they might be aliens, or zombies.
Thirdly, if there's more than two things to vote for, the majority might not even be the majority. Let's say the gov't initiates a make-work project to create jobs and stimulate the economy, so they decide to build a Really Big Thing. Not only will building it create jobs and use goods and services from the local economy, but people will come from miles around and pay to see the RBT, because we're
To make matters worse, those 24 people may have voted for it only because they were coerced, cajoled, and/or bribed to vote blue. Maybe some special interest group offered them all toasters to vote blue. Americans seem to have a thing for toast, seeing as every bank seems to give them away for opening an account with them. "I was just about to open an account with that bank across the street—you know, the one with the better interest rates and operating hours? But yours has free toasters!" Come the zombie apocalypse, our new currency will no doubt be toast. You heard it hear first.
So ultimately we end up with a Really Big Blue Thing because 24 people wanted a new toaster.
That's democracy for you.
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