Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "Why Democracy Leads to Tyranny" video.

“If you can keep it”. It requires vigilance which too many forgot. Fortunately many are starting to remember if it’s not too late.
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You don’t understand homelessness. Most homeless choose it. They don’t want to be a part of society. The difference is how wealthy nations have become has allowed them to live whereas before they’d just simply die. If you chose not to work, you starved. The state didn’t provide for you. The “majority” in wealthy and democratic nations are NOT poor. It’s a very small percentage of the population. Where as before they were. Serfs were poor and everyone not of nobility, high up in the church, or a merchant were poor. We’re talking 3rd world kind of poor. I simply love when people attempt to compare post industrial revolution to pre. If you’ve never lived like it didn’t happen, you have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m talking no electricity, no running water, no modern day conveniences. There are even a few places in the US you could go experience it. You won’t because you’d rather sit in your comfort making ridiculous comparisons of completely different time periods and proclaim the one you’ve not experienced better. Edit: Serfs didn’t own the land. If they didn’t produce enough to pay the landowner their required amount, which the lord had to pay the crown a percentage of in taxes, they were punished. They weren’t allowed to move up in wealth. As much as people like you complain you have no idea what it’s like to live in a society with zero upward mobility while pretending that’s somehow a good thing. You have no idea what it’s like to truly suffer yet long for it out of your own ignorance. You’re living in the top 1% of the world’s wealth while complaining about the 0.01%.
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I think originally it was supposed to be similar to jury selection. At least at the local and state representative levels. I’d prefer the federal government shrinking and the power restored to the state and local governments. Part of the problem occurs when the rulers are tucked away far from their constituents. It’s much different when they have to come in contact with them every time they leave their home and being tucked hundreds or thousands of miles away in DC. This is why it was set up originally how it was. With the power concentrated where the people had more direct contact. If you did things against the citizenship you could face having tomatoes thrown at you when you walked down the street. What you’re up to is much more transparent.
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Oh the utopia. Your plan completely ignores human nature and pretends it doesn’t exist. What you’re talking about is tribes. Look at how peaceful that was please. We’re currently living in the most peaceful time in recorded history and act like it’s the opposite.
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No that’s not what it’s saying. It’s saying the nature of every government is corruption. No matter the system it creeps in overtime. Notice how it’s saying modern democracy and not democracy period. All governments fail eventually. There is no perfect system. Democracy is currently the best system but it has flaws and those flaws need to be remembered and watched for. Complacency is one of the biggest threats to it.
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Direct democracy isn’t being involved in government. It’s a system where everything is decided by popular vote. I don’t have to be in office to live in a direct democracy. We have a republic to prevent tyranny of the majority. What you’re proposing means California and New York would rule over everyone else. If I wanted to live under their policies, I’d move there. That’s why in the US we have direct democracy at the local level, a combination at the state level, and a representative republic at the federal level. The problem arises when the federal government takes power away from the state and local governments which is what’s happened. The scope of the federal government is laid out in the Constitution and all other power is supposed to be with the state. Now the power has concentrated into the federal government. Fortunately some states are remembering they’re supposed to have it and are attempting to take it back. Edit: The more a government has the power to affect your everyday life, the more direct the democracy was the idea. Local government has the most direct impact and federal should have almost none is how the original power structure was laid out. If you live in a place where the rules of the majority don’t suit you, you’re free to move where it does. Hence the freedom of movement is so important. You saw that really in mass during the pandemic as California and New York lost population.
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I just want it back how it’s supposed to be. Probably because civics is no longer considered an important part of education people seem to think of separation of powers only at the federal level. Originally it was everything. Separation occurred on multiple levels. Federal and state governments created a separation and local government another one. As this video pointed out multiple separate private organizations and institutions was another. We’ve experienced such a massive federalization people no longer even understand what the intended role of the federal government was. We’ve got to separate them again or we’ll just continue down this path.
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What’s currently going on is you have several factions. There’s one that sees the collection of power that’s happened and wants to reduce it. Spread it back out. There’s one that just wants to maintain power and continue gathering more. The last is a group that sees the concentration of power and wants to use it to force their ideals onto everyone else for “the greater good”. Beware the words “our democracy” instead of just democracy because unless you think like them your democracy isn’t included. It comes from Marxist and neo Marxist works. Only members of the party are allowed to participate in democracy so it’s “our democracy”. I’m not saying everyone that says it understands that’s what they’re saying. Most just parrot what they hear. Always be leery of new terminology entering into speeches and repeated like this particular phrase. Edit: The West is currently engaged in an attempted Maoist cultural revolution. If you want to fully understand look into how it occurred in China. It’s currently unraveling in a very similar way. I’m sorry but I’m not going to become like that for the sake of peace.
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That’s what it’s pointing out. That’s why it goes over how power has concentrated over the last century especially where it used to be held by private institutions or groups and thus separate from not just the state but each other.
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Speak for yourself please. I’ve been against the concentration of power since before I was old enough to vote and I’m in my 50s. Unfortunately we don’t control regulations which is where most of this concentration has occurred. The managerial state does. The problem is when they manage to convince the public it’s needed for this extensional threat or that one. Now fortunately more and more see the problems with it and hopefully it can get turned around but it won’t be overnight.
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