Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Reflections on democracy...

A whole programme devoted to democracy on radio 4 recently manage to spend its entirety discussing process without questioning democracy itself.What does it matter if 33% get to vote your liberty away or 99%,when the end is identical -a denial of liberty? If one man's liberty is taken from him liberty is denied.The democracy pardigm is utilitarian,what the majority want.Nothing could be more illiberal.To vote to abandon democracy is a contradiction itself so logically anyone who opposes democracy should not go to the ballot box to do so as to do so would validate democracy.Unless I am missing something...

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