Got Democracy?

Got Democracy? We continue this series with some contemplation. I really urge you to think about democracy, what it is, what it looks like, what it feels like, and ask yourself: How democratic is your life? Again, I urge you all to check out the links below. In particular I'm urging you all to read "The Crisis of Democracy"

http://sqworl.com/510e0e

More to come.

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• democracy
• direct democracy
• pure democracy
• socialism
• anarchism
• activism
• Trilateral Commission
• Samuel Huntington
• David Rockefeller
• James Madison
• Minority of the Opulent
• Hitler

[Budguy68]

Democracy is mob rule over the minority. The same mob that can be swayed, controlled and manipulated by some smooth talking mac daddy politician.

If democracy ever wants to rule me all they will get from me is a storm full of lead.

[buddhagem]

Don't worry genius. You're not part of that minority; the good news is, you'll never be part of that minority. You can put your weapon down. That minority you're so intent on protecting will continue to rule over you and exploit you.

[DeraJa]

how do you establish the extent to which something has an effect on you?

[buddhagem]

I have an iPhone app that does it for me. I'm not sure how other people do it :) Seriously? That's for you to figure out. Some things will no doubt be tough to flesh out; but my belief is that once you really think in concrete terms about your life and the things that impacting you, it's not that difficult. How anal you want to be about it is up to you. But I think you can figure it out.

[ManilaRyceTLM]

whenever there is a so-called "tyranny of the majority" it's always lead by the interests of a minority. free people don't all collectively decide to start lynching. the mind control of a tyrannical system produces such group-think.

[MrAxmea]

omg, we're in Iraq because a couple of screwed up radicals blew up two of our most impressive buildings and killed thousands of innocents. not for oil, not for money not to westernize the middle east, but because if the incumbent government continues to support a unchecked angry genocidal point of view and takes no action against instability and we sit by and twiddle our thumbs and hope that a low fat McDonalds salad will save us, we'll get screwed again!!!

[ImperialRussianGuard]

I find it very amusing when people like yourself cry about how the "evil" elite is oppressing you and how only democracy can save the day. The fact of the matter this new elite is the offspring of the democratic revolutions which got rid of the old aristocratic order. They are perhaps democracies staunchest supporters because they could never had such power and influence under a monarch. In democracy they can easily manipulate the uneducated masses.

[Ilikenuman]

i think you should script your videos a little more. because the way you spoke in this video made it seem like you were high :)

[davehutchinson67]

@buddhagem That's exactly right...the God Gifted mind of Budguy (says it all right) need not worry..you have already drank the cool aid...the powers that run this country will always protect what James Madison called the "minority of the opulent". Read Ben Franklin's last speech? Was he a dem or a rep? Wake up Bud Guy...your mac daddy pols have already taken over..we live in a de facto corporate oligarchy more or less...you think you have a say..lmao...they did have democracy in one place

[crud4]

The amount of ignorance in America never ceases to amaze and depress me. Good video buddhagem- note to the "patriots"- why exactly do you think the founding fathers were against true democracy?

[mondohartford]

I hate to say it but I dont think we have any democracy LOL

[FacultyZ]

Heres to the True Levellers and Digger of England who understood more clearly the problems with feudalism statism and capitalism also problem of unelected-dictatorships (such as despotism or corportism) or an

elected-dictatorships ( that of Polyarchy)!!!

They like Chartist anarchist Marxist etc...fought for either more representative democracy or direct democracy!!!

Heres to those who died and tortured for the on going stuggle for emancipation even today!

[samsonlovesyou]

Ah, Buddhagem, you legend.

I think I'm going to have to steal your words verbatim from around 4 minutes in when discussing democracy in the future. Could not be said better.

[MononofuBlood]

MigDanskeren,

From Wiki:

"The party's last leader, Adolf Hitler, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg in 1933. Hitler rapidly established a totalitarian regime[2][3][4][5] known as the Third Reich."

[ChannelMikeG]

Freedom is participation in power. - Cicero