Wednesday 21 October 2020

Democracy Sucks Say Millennial's

The Center for the Future of Democracy has called their report that 52% of British under 38's say they are not satisfied with democracy worrying.
They don't offer any explanation of just why there is a disconnect between the next generation of Brits and Democracy but it isn't hard to hazard a guess, you only have to look at the inept morons in the White House and Downing Street to see that electing a leader is not always a considered vote for the best possible person to do the job.  
So if we are going to ditch Democracy then what could it be replaced with?
All have their good and bad points and it depends who you ask, Anarchist's believe the best form of Government is no Government at all while Communist's see it as a means of abolishing Societies inequalities.
We tried a Monarchy and it does tickle some people's ideological fancy but Communism's watered down sibling Socialism seems to be the most popular choice but there are plenty of others to mull over including a combination of the best bits from each.
As the British Government won't even contemplate abandoning the archaic First Past The Post system to make it more representative then it would appear that a form of Democracy is what we got and what we will be stuck with for the forseeable future, we can only hope that the Parties put up better candidates than they currently offer up.

4 comments:

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

this post is confusing, as you seem to be mixing apples and oranges...

how to pick your government leaders (apples):
democracy - majority pick
monarchy - you don't have influence

how to manage national economics (oranges):
communism - government owns everything
socialism - government owns important industries

Falling on a bruise said...

It’s about if they don’t want democracy, what would they want instead and if we have to have democracy then the choices of leader have to be better

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

i got your point. the rest was confusing... are you sure you understand the difference in governing and economics?

Falling on a bruise said...

I’m sure I do but I’m not so sure you do if you are struggling with this.