Re: Good Government (was: Evolution of governments (was: Consistency in naming))

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Adam Walker wrote:

> --- Akhilesh Pillalamarri <valardil@...> wrote:
> >
> > Democracy will never truly work. Communism, while it
> > has it's goods, has problems. Monarchy is at fault
> > if a bad king comes into power. Fascism is a rascist
> > hate based system. Therefore, no system of
> > government in perfect. Our current democratic age
> > will be but a brief flicker in history. Already as
> > we can see, democracy is usually an excuse for
> > corrupt and instable leaders to come to power. It
> > does not really even work  anywhere except for in
> > America, Western Europe, and Japan. Elsewhere, it is
> > a failure, and even in America we have tyrants such
> > as Bush.
>
> Excuse me?  Bush is not a tyrant.  Half of us voted
> for him, including me and all the voting members of my
> family.
While I disagree with much of what he does (from an international
perspective; within the US, he's free to do whatever the people will allow),
and I disagree with the statement that he's a tyrant, (a) being voted for
by half of a constituency is not the same as not being a tyrant; (b) Bush
was not voted for by anything approaching half the constituency,* and;
(c) of those that voted, less than half voted for Bush.**

*   Optional voting only works*** when people actually vote.
**  FPTP voting doesn't work unless there's only two candidates.
*** At least given the results of winning the presidential elections. If
the elections were proportional, I'd be much happier with optional
voting and a low turn-out.

--
Tristan.

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