democracy

democracy
1. (democracy) (1074↑, 129↓)
Four wolves and one lamb voting on lunch.

Democracy is unfair at times.

2. (democracy) (874↑, 165↓)
A form of government where the leader is chosen by popularity rather than ability to run a country.

"I've said it before and I'll say it again; democracy simply doesn't work." -Kent Brockman

3. (democracy) (656↑, 151↓)
A form of government that works, but not well.

Democracy relies on the public. The public is stupid.

4. (Democracy) (405↑, 31↓)
1) A common system of government directed by the whims of mobs and marked by a low tolerance for basic human rights and common sense; primarily used to incrementally transition a government ruled by common law (Republic) to a government ruled by the political law of a few elite (Oligarchy). 2) Individuals get one vote - the ballot box. Considering a) most elections are stolen and b) the mainstream media - whose parent corporations financially contribute directly/indirectly to the campaigns of the major party system - exclude coverage of ALL viable candidates (Libertarians, Greens, Independents, Constitutional, Socialists, etc), the individual is mostly irrelevant. 3) Its two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner. Tonight’s menu is obvious and leftovers provide for tomorrow’s needs. Thereafter, what can the ravenous wolves do but eat each other. 4) Jeopardy answer: What is - How our country fell from liberty’s wings of justice and peace into the volcano of preferential treatment and war?

----- Every drinking class person in this country would stop screaming about his blisstard neighbors if the sacred golden cow called Democracy was slaughtered today and the Bill of Rights esteemed tomorrow. It will never happen because everyone in this country has bought a rug that faces DC and they pray five times a day to the Almighty G. “The Government saves us all. The Government saves us all … from personal responsibility. Praise my lord, my savior, my Government. Amen\!” The United States Constitution makes no mention of ‘Democracy.’ None\! ----- “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government” - The Constitution, Article IV, Section 4 “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” - Joseph Stalin “The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.” - Lord Action “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” - Noam Chomsky “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” - Winston Churchill “Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.” - Alan Coren “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention ... and have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.” - James Madison “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.” - Alexander Tytler “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” - Thomas Jefferson “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” - Thomas Jefferson “Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.” - H.L. Mencken “A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest democratic nations has been 200 years. Each has been through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith. From faith to great courage. From courage to liberty. From liberty to abundance. From abundance to complacency. From complacency to selfishness. From selfishness to apathy. From apathy to dependency. And from dependency back again into bondage.” - Lord Thomas MacCauley, May 23, 1857 “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” - James Bovard (1994)

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5. (democracy) (377↑, 94↓)
"The worst system, except for all the others"

Winston Churchill

6. (Democracy) (299↑, 129↓)
A failing system of government, which like communism works in principle but fails in practice. ALL democracies end up serving the needs of rich interest groups and detach themselves from the populous. which inturn results in the majority of the people being governed by a minority.

The current UK and US governments are both cases where a minority vote has put a leader into power against the wishes of the majority.

7. (democracy) (230↑, 61↓)
A form of government which America has never been in. In a democracy we would vote and popular vote would decide our president. In our form of governemnt, a republic, we elect representatives which then get to vote with "our interests at heart".,

America is not a democracy you dumb fucks, it's a Republic.

8. (democracy) (162↑, 40↓)
Taken from the Greek 'demos' and 'kratos' ('people' and 'power' respectively), it refers to the system of government in which the entire population effectively rules through a concentrated body which relies on the population's opinion as a source for its policies.

The French Revolution was sparked by ideals of liberty and democracy for all.

9. (Democracy) (95↑, 38↓)
The lie they tell you so they can keep getting rich.

Look around you. When's the last time you were getting rich?

10. (democracy) (80↑, 29↓)
What America isn't.

"We're a fucking republic, not a democracy."

11. (democracy) (65↑, 23↓)
[Mob] rule. Works in theory, fails in practice.

The government never really cares about the opinions of the people who support it anyway.

12. (democracy) (55↑, 22↓)
a term politicians may use in the event of an emergency.

reporter: "President bush why are americans going to war - oh I beg your pardon -I meant [pre-emptive strike]- with iraq if a 87% majority of american citizens do not condone the act? bush: ..uh...um...democracy\! [yo mama]\! thats right, you heard me. democracy biatch.

13. (Democracy) (35↑, 6↓)
Any of a number of forms of [government] which at their core have some degree of decision-making performed by a system of voting. Exactly who can vote ([franchisement]) often varies quite widely, and has historically in many countries been divided along lines of age, gender, religion, economic status, class, race, ethnic group, language, nationality, and citizenship. The degree of participation can also vary. A [direct democracy], for example, would in principle have all decisions made by popular vote. Most democratic nations use some form of [representative democracy], whereby voters designate certain people or groups to make decisions for them.

Though both the United States and the United Kingdom have democratic elements, their political systems are quite different.

14. (democracy) (52↑, 27↓)
Democracy is just a illusion. It does not work properly. that whole idea that ppl have their say through it is fake.

Most Democracies are actually a type of government called an [oligarchy]

15. (democracy) (36↑, 12↓)
The notion that millions who cannot order their own lives properly are somehow still at least minimally qualified to participate in the ordering of the lives of millions.

Often heard in a democracy: "Hey, where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?"

16. (Democracy) (31↑, 9↓)
A form of government in which all citizens vote on issues that face the nation. The first true democracy was in the Greek isles. Though they where a strong nation they where easily defeated by the Romen empire because they where spread apart and information traveled slowly. A true democracy couldnt work in the past because of the slow travel of information, but in the present day the internet could be used. PLEASE NOTE: The United States Of America is not a Democracy, it is a Republic.

Ancient Greece was a Democracy. The United States is not a Democracy, it is a Republic like ancient Rome.

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17. (democracy) (34↑, 16↓)
Somthing one country does to another when it wants something.

America needed some stable oil reserves so it brought democracy to Iraq.

18. (Democracy) (49↑, 35↓)
Democracy is where any two idiots can vote out a genius.

George Bush was elected for a second term over Kerry

19. (democracy) (41↑, 29↓)
(in britain) Form of government in which only the views of minorities are considered valid. The majority opinion is disregarded as inherently prejudiced.

Fox hunting, asylum, "Tony Martin's Law", the Euro and many, many more...

20. (democracy) (22↑, 11↓)
1. A weapon of mass destruction introduce by George W. Bush in 2003 2. An excuse for war. (see [oil] )

You better hope there's no oil in your backyard, otherwise George W. Bush will bring democracy to your house.

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21. (democracy) (45↑, 35↓)
worship of jackals by jackasses

united states of america

22. (democracy) (20↑, 10↓)
Great governmental system, doomed to fail once the masses figure out that with their vote they can loot the treasury.

Alex D'Toqueville, some Frog who toured and chronicled America, pointed out about 180 years ago the fatal flaw of democracy.

23. (democracy) (17↑, 8↓)
"A lullaby to sooth a troubled infant. "(Borges)

When Alexander of Macedon conquered and pillaged much of the known world over two thousand years ago, he claimed that he did so to spread 'democracy.'

24. (democracy) (23↑, 15↓)
Fascism you can vote for.

How exactly does the President do more good then Hussein?

25. (Democracy) (13↑, 6↓)
Communism to the extreme.

Ivana: Yo man, I used my democratic rights today cause I live in the United States: a true democracy... Beejay: Communist\!

26. (democracy) (13↑, 6↓)
A tyranny of the Majority over the Minority. The opposite of true liberty.

Democracy is 51% of the people voting to oppress the other 49%.

27. (democracy) (12↑, 5↓)
A system in which anyone is free to vote for whomever they want, at which point the winner of said election sells out to any number of whacko special interest groups including environmentalists, unions, and prisoners.

Democracy is great when it works; unfortunately, most politicians don't.

28. (Democracy) (6↑, 0↓)
A non existant form of government in which every citizen would have a vote on every issue. Unfortunately impossible to exist on a scale larger then a village due to massive stupidity of general public.

We had a democracy and so we selected our leader by popular vote not electoral college.

29. (democracy) (14↑, 8↓)
Democracy is a system of government that doesn't work and will probably fail altogether within the next few decades. Reasons;- 1. The majority of the electorate tend to be [idiots] who will elect an idiot. 2. The majority of the electorate tend to be selfish morons that would elect Hitler if he lowered their [taxes]. 3. Politicians use pathetic, small-minded catchphrases that mean very little, eg. 'hug a hoodie' or 'for the family.' Mr Idiot, the average voter, however, votes on the basis of these. 4. The rich and powerful form a better connected, private-school educated elite who are far more easily able to take office. 5. In America, leaders take ordinary words and add '-ism', 'mis-' so that Jimmy [Redneck] with his shotgun thinks that they're using 'big werds' and are therefore smart. Eg, 'they misunderestimated me' 6. In America and elsewhere, policy is over-rided by how bigger fan of '[Jeezus]' or '[Gawd]' a person is, forcing intelligent politicians to do lip-service to [religion], and allowing [fundamentalist] scum to rise into office. 7. Politicians will always be able to whip up the masses to do their bidding at the expense of civil liberties by citing a common enemy, real or imagined. Eg. The war on terror.

Democracy in action;- Politician;- 'I believe in the power of prayer, and not to defamilarise ourselves with the misinformation of terrorists. Family First\!' Jimmy Redneck;- Dang I'll vote for that guy, he's usin' thems big werds like an intellesuel, and he's got gawd on his side\! Yeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwh\!

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30. (democracy) (13↑, 7↓)
An electoral type of government in which the person who has the majority of the popular vote takes office.

The united states is becoming an oligarchy although it professes to be a democracy.

31. (Democracy) (11↑, 6↓)
A system within which fairness and merit is despensed with in favour of empowering idiots. As Plato pointed out - the people do not always know best, even what is best for them (in the same way a small child doesn't\!) Current democracies feature governments with the support of a minority of the population and a bias towards those who form the majority and so therefore have their every whim pandered to on the basis that it wins votes.

Tony Blair's slightly less than popular government. The UK system of doling out benefits to those too lazy to work, but who still vote. Democracy.

32. (democracy) (14↑, 9↓)
A form of government which looks good on paper, but in practice, really sucks.

Ha\! You say democracy like its a good thing\!

33. (democracy) (13↑, 8↓)
What Americans and some other european nations think they have. What America actually has is a representative republic, where the people have to choose between 2 candidates (the others dont really matter, and no one ever votes for the green party) A democracy is where a nation is ruled by its people, rather than one person who gets into power using lies and then doesn't listen to public opinion. What a good government would be is that someone is voted into power, and all major decisions put forward by the government are voted on by the public. The person in power has the ultimate decision, unless there is a big majority vote against him/her i.e. more than 60%

Since my vote doesn't count, i'm voting for The Monster Raving Looney party.

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34. (Democracy) (3↑, 0↓)
The term "democracy" derives from ancient Greek: "Demos" means the mob (of citizens) + "Kratos" meaning ruler(ship), i.e., government. Therefore Demo + cracy = Mob Rule. We are NOT ruled by the mob; we are ruled by the Media. Therefore we are a Mediocracy.

In a Democracy, rulers are chosen by the mob, according to their promises to do whatever the mob thinks it wants. Before taking office, they must first take an oath to only do what everyone wants and never to do anything that everyone does not want. This is called the Oath of Office. Because not everyone wants the same thing, the ruler in a true Democracy can never actually do anything because everyone cannot agree on anything. But in a Mediocracy that pretends to be a Democracy, the Media constantly criticizes the ruler for doing everything, anything, and nothing, because the mob cannot agree on anything and must be told everything that they must disagree with, so that they may continue to disagree with everything as the Media so directs in order to remain in power. Individuals in Media who are chosen by others in the Media to rule over US, before taking office, must first be sworn in, whereby they swear never to do anything that exceeds Mediocre. This is called the Oath of Mediocrity. Thereafter nothing of actual value may ever be permitted.

35. (democracy) (2↑, 0↓)
n. - a government in which the people elect their dictators.

In this democracy, we must make petitions to stop our [politicians] from inacting crazy laws.

36. (democracy) (6↑, 5↓)
Democracy: from the Greek 'demos', people and 'kratos', power: 1: A system of government in which an entire national population is totally deprived of power by a few worthless bits of paper with Xs on them. 2: Totalitarianism with some eye-candy.

Democracy, you either hate it or loath it. In a democracy, you get to vote for everything except whether or not you want to live in a democracy. Moderator: "I'm not accepting the use of the word $%*£$*** on FreeSpeech4Awl. Don't argue, it's not a democracy\!"

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37. (Democracy) (4↑, 4↓)
"Government by the people, of the people, for the people." Abraham Lincoln

"Democracy is when you say what you like and do what your told." Dave Barry

38. (democracy) (4↑, 4↓)
"...the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried" - Winston Churchill Or what my kindergartener told me: "100 kings"

Democracy is a bitch...but then again...

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39. (Democracy) (3↑, 3↓)
Democracy is a form of government on which a country is [aparently] run by a few who are voted into power by a mass, we of course know this to be a lie because every form of domocratic government (including the British government)is completely corrupt. Take the EU for example, when did anyone ever get to vote on any EU 'TREATY', NEVER, only the proud Irish got a vote and the EU COMPLETELY IGNORED IT. british government should be a Elitist monarchy EU governemt should burn under the foot of the independant european countries America is ok but can be a bit thick at times. dieu et mon droit God save the Queen

EU: hey, lets have a united states of europe\! Populus: NO WAY EU: democracy only works for the rich and the people in power, you common masses dont count\! EU: is that a yes? Populus: NO EU: we have a U.S.E

40. (democracy) (5↑, 5↓)
(taken from the song "One" by Metallica) What is Democracy? answer-It has somthing to do with young men killing eachother.

Democracy brought our country to the horrible state of confusion and seperation as it is today

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41. (democracy) (4↑, 4↓)
1. Form of [government] supposedly originating in [classical] [Athens]. The term is derived from the [Greek] words demos ([people]) and kratein ([rule]). Even in ancient Athens the "people" excluded [women] and [slaves]. 2. Government "[of the people, by the people and for the people]", to quote [Abraham Lincoln]. 3. In the present world, whatever suits those controlling the [United States] [military].

Sometimes, son, it's unfortunately necessary to liquidate a coupla million gooks to bring them democracy, McDonald's and all that stuff. Praise the Lord and pass the ammo.

42. (democracy) (8↑, 8↓)
Apolitical system that only rich people can afford

IBM is very democratic

43. (democracy) (2↑, 3↓)
a rather silly word which, throughout time, has been used to refer to the ruling of a select elite over the people who have only the illusion of say in the nation

the United States The Roman Republic the ancient Greek City states (all of them) Great Britain Germany every other country that declares itself a democracy

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44. (democracy) (2↑, 3↓)
A belief that your careless decision will be eventually covered up by other people.

With democracy, you don't have to hesitate\!

45. (democracy) (11↑, 12↓)
A mob rule system of government. Inevitably fails. Has major differences to a representative form of government.

In Democracy every man has a vote but does not work on large scales. Generally leads to chaos due to lack of organization and the pure anarchy due to the lack of rule of law. In contrast, the federalized republic is a large scale Democratic system that is made up of many people's representatives elected by popular vote.

46. (democracy) (18↑, 20↓)
See [USA]. Nah just kidding\!

Calling USA a democracy is a disgrace to Pericles

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47. (democracy) (14↑, 17↓)
Something that is all but impossible to criticize without coming across like an elitist fuck. Also, despite undeniable flaws, the only stable and morally acceptable form of government.

"Democracy sucks\! The people are stupid\! I can't believe they voted for Bush again\!" "Well, what's the alternative?" "..." "Elitist fuck."

48. (democracy) (19↑, 22↓)
fascism by numbers

this is a democracy

49. (Democracy) (5↑, 9↓)
It got something to do with young men killing each other.

Man 1: Have you heard about the War in Iraq? Man 2: Yeah, its full of Democracy\!

50. (democracy) (7↑, 13↓)
democracy might be a horrible system, but it's better than anything else (except a WORKING communism, which really would only work if everyone was on marijuana)

go democracy\! die conforming republic\!

51. (Democracy) (8↑, 15↓)
A peculiar form of government native to New England, which few other places have managed to emulate.

Democracy works, but it's being overtaken by federalism these days.

52. (democracy) (9↑, 17↓)
One man, one vote, no chance.
53. (democracy) (10↑, 19↓)
a form of government that could never work in China
54. (democracy) (6↑, 18↓)
laws made up by dumbass goody goody assholes

anarchy is what should be.

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55. (democracy) (8↑, 31↓)
What most Europeans bitch that America doesn't really have. What they fail to realize is that our republic is superior to a democracy. A true democracy is mob rule.
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Last updated: 2012.02.29

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