Democracy, the system of systems?

[ZenitYerkes]

Originally Posted by Woodsprite

With the government wielding almost complete power over everyone? No thanks...

Yeah -we've got Big Brother here in Europe...

In all honesty, social democracies work -I'd say even better than liberal democracies since it provides education, health care and economic help for people in need through a strong taxation system paid by quite high salaries -this is the situation of France.

Woodsprite: let's not brand systems without knowing what they actually are or how they actually work -specially if all you can bring is a superficial knowledge on just the Soviet Union. Soviet Communism is a small branch of the whole Marxist theory, you know.

But again, it's not power for the people. Real power for the people means I get asked and decide on the matters that affect me -what can't happen in large countries.