Democracy
Pros and Cons

In society today, the things deemed acceptable by the public are extremely limited. Naturally, regardless of something’s acceptability, people do them anyway. Ironically, it is the people themselves that deem them unacceptable and acceptable. People are natural hypocrites. However, a reason why people may act out these unacceptable things is because they are not properly educated NOT to do them.
The ultimate problem with democracy is that the public generally has no idea what they are voting for. The most likely thing to be voted for during election is the issue described and supported the public favorite. Very few people are able to turn the tide away from this conformism. However, turned the tide has been, because those few intelligent people out there who form their own opinion say otherwise. They get their message across, forcing the public to rethink their views. Naturally, the public doesn’t like thinking, so they quash protesters. Nevertheless, this proves that the general public doesn’t think very well on what they are voting for. While an individual may know what he or she is voting for, people have no idea. Essentially, the greater the numbers actually lowers the overall intelligence.
Democracy does have an upside however, as it allows the general public to have some form of control over what happens in the country. Once again however, this is only as effective as the public is intelligent. Since the general public isn’t very intelligent, this allows them to be easily manipulated by the military, which somehow has gained control of media and other such things affecting opinion. This is a horrible downside to democracy because it allows the ‘wrong’ laws to be passed, limiting freedom, and stirring corruption.
When the freedom of America is challenged, of course protesters rally to stop it. America was built on the basis of freedom, and when that freedom is oppressed, Americans eagerly take up the cause. However, it is very ironic that it is Americans themselves that actually started this oppression. All of this is hypothetical of course, but lets have an example. Let’s say that the government passes a law against speaking against homosexuals. Although this would help quash many stereotypes of homosexuals, and promote the solid indifference America was supposedly built on, it would also challenge one of the primary factors of American law. The Freedom of Speech. To the eyes of the indifferent, a protest against such a law would probably be outrageous, simply because such a protest would look very bad on paper and challenge several other laws tying into freedom. This would stir incredible amounts of confusion as well as corruption, and I’m sure that blood would be involved. However, this is not the topic at hand.
The main concern is that democracy is failing specifically because the public is too stupid to think twice about that they’re voting for. The electoral voting system is very questionable as well, as it undermines democracy itself. This will be discussed in further essays.

Well the point about our desire to disobey rules has to do how we are raised, but a picture perfect upbringing is allmost impossible. Our vews of things has changed troughout the cenuries due to affect by the majorety. What was once common then is now unthinkable becouse someone got inluanced, had an idea, and passed it on. Everything we think and do was affected by our caretakers, so if they were interested in one thing, we would inherit the affect of that to later be influanced by others. When we vote, we go for our interests (the ones we know about), and most of our desissions are allready under influance by everybody else. If someone wants to really \"disobay\" the rules, someone has allready done it, but at a milder extent.

I may have talked around myself again, but hopefully you understand

The public doesn\'t have too much control.

In Washington we voted for an increase in Teacher\'s pay. Congress denied it.

In 2000 Gore won popular vote, Bush won due to electoral vote which single-handedly overrode public opinion

You want to know why there are popular idiots in office. Because smart people know that politics was the worst idea man has created to solve problems. We should all keep in mind that majority vote is the decision most people want, not the decision that is best. There is a type of \"corruption\" within democracy and mixing it with \"mainstream\" topics doesn\'t help. Suchin Pac telling people to vote on MTV isn\'t helping. If you ask me, which no one has, it is hurting. Now we have new voters voting because they know that Kerry listens to 2-Pac or whatever.

Back to the point, democracy is bad. Very bad. The democrats are good, but democracy is bad. You know the joke about congress being the opposite of progress? There is much truth in that. In fact, I don\'t even believe that there will ever be a good form of decision making or a good form of government.