what is your idea about democracy?
602977
Democracy is great, it is my right to say i dont like whats happening im going to change it, Its my right to say you cant do this to me, you arent allowed government, its my right to be able to be president, its my right to rights.
719943
We are not a Democracy. We are a representative republic. It would lead to chaos if everything that was decided went up to vote. This way you vote the representative in and if the decisions are bad ones you vote them back out. The system has a lot of checks and balances so things that are controversial can't be done quickly.
783646
You cannot give Democracy to anyone. All you can do is show what it is and show them a way. The rest is up to them. The Iraq people have to want democracy. (all of them) It can be really difficult to know it is what you want if you have never had Democracy and have no idea what it really means.
1160582
Winston Churchill had a great quote about this:\n"The best arguement against democracy is a 5 minute chat with your average voter."\n\nIn short, people is stupid.  Get used to it, sorry to burst your bubble.
307377
European democarcy has the principle of subsidiarety as one of its foundations. This effectively means that democracy should exist at the lowest possible level of the democratic hierarchy. This means that communities should have the power to decide how their infrastructure, lives and responses to important issues such as drugs and unemployment are addressed. This is community development in action where ordinary people decide what the problems are and how to solve them. The advantage of this is that the power is distributed among the people and not focussed at the top. (By the way, you can buy electricity in advance in the UK!)
24085
Because its democracy
116151
The concept of democracy started in Ancient Greece. It was meant to be a government for the people by the people.
389120
Fixed, cemented, and sealed all in one foul swoop!!! We have not had a democracy for a very long time...if ever, and the people with money have the power. I disagree with the person that said we live in a communist state...We are living in a feudalistic state!!!
1110672
In the future...\n\nthe strong will define what democracy is.
224363
Yes.  Democracy encompasses more than just geographical borders.  It is a philosophy that is largely built upon the foundation of law, and freedom of choice.  As long as men continue to value individual freedom and freethinking there will be democracy.  I don't foresee a world filled with dark, gothic, Batman-like figures devouring the poor without a fight.  That's how France and America became great anyway.  Don't forget.  Lights of liberty we all must be.
328138
It's not quite that simple. We are not true democracy, but a representative democracy, which has the same principles, but obviously everyone in the whole country does not need to vote on every single thing that passes through congress, ese we would spend our entire lives in the poll lines. Anyway, direct democracies only work in very small countries with a minute population.
109704
To control the world thru "democracy"
729094
The technical term for it is a democratic republic so a lot of ppl like to argue it is not a democracy; but, actually it is.\n\nThere are many different forms of democracies with the basic concept applying when the will of the ppl is heard.\n\nIn a republic like ours, we do have this. We elect officials to speak the will of the ppl... to represent the ppl; therefore, we are a democracy. \n\nThe difference between our democracy and say a direct democracy is that we elect regional representatives to do the work, study and research for us in order to make informed choices.
1143401
no.  was never a democracy.  it was intended to be a republic, but we all got sold to the highest bidder.  now its a corporate run capitalistic prison state.
1115154
C.  Lack of stability is not always a bad thing.  It means that thing can be changed (albeit for good or bad)  I would prefer to have both democracy and liberty, with the knowledge that things could be changed if the got bad enough.  Power to the people, in other words.  Of course, with a lack of stability comes the responsibility to be an active, participating citizen, less the fringe run away with everything.  Not a choice for the faint of heart, but a worthwhile one, nonetheless.
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People have a very warped idea of democracy.\n\nIt technically is impossible but without it, it cannot form.\n\nIn the beginning, they siad that woman could not vote and men could.  It was siad to be an unfair democracy.\nThen they tried to make it fairer and then realised that they was stopping the general public from having an input and corrected that to ensure democracy is fair.\nThen there was the death penalty and is it inhumane to use this as punishment and this country (Canada) removed that and there is still discussion about corperal punishment - We are deneying children of the right to not be spanked and imposing our thought that it is OK on our children.  Some countried have banned that, and then they found there was still other unfairnesses that do not line up with the definition of democracy so that it is fair to.\n\nTo really get a good idea of what is right and wrong, we can't just consider our own views and votes but how they effect others to.  This is the bases of the European Union and so they brought in the human rights acts and safety laws that consider everyones rights to such digities dispite the majority votes against it.  i.e. children are not spanked dispite most adults would, that is not respecting the children.\n\nThis goes on and on getting adjusted to make it fairer and fairer.\nIn a sense, democracy is about un-fairness as much as it is about fair-ness.\nJust because we have a majority vote, it does not make that vote for what ever we want right in consideration for the whole eg. death penalty.\n\nDecracy is not meant to be fair, it is meant to become fair!\nThrough democracy we learn!\n\nCREED
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Our form of democracy is not genuine democracy.  And it works just fine, thanks.  \n\nThe US is a democratic-republic.  Our own concept.