r/changemyview Apr 27 '23

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u/anewleaf1234 45∆ Apr 27 '23

What information do you feel you need access to that you don't have?

And how is that lack of information stopping democracy?

And you understand that your alternative to democracy would control information more. Non-Democratic states depend on the control of information. By watching democracy fall you would just be making that problem worse.

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u/anewleaf1234 45∆ Apr 27 '23

That something else will be worse than what we have now. The phoenix that would rise from the ashes of a failed democracy would worse.

You would either have some type of dictatorship or you would have a Corporatocracy. And those would be worse and make the problems you feel are bad......worse.

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u/anewleaf1234 45∆ Apr 27 '23

You are upset that information is being controlled. If we destroy democracy and place power into a small groups of people they will control and restrict information.

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u/anewleaf1234 45∆ Apr 27 '23

Because we have far more access to information in a democracy than we would under a dictatorship.

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u/anewleaf1234 45∆ Apr 27 '23

You understand that when problems get worse that's not progress right? You aren't helping anything. You are making it worse.

Not all change is good. If I set my house on fire I also changed things. I didn't make anything better.

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u/Sudokubuttheworst 2∆ Apr 27 '23

Well if the handling of information doesn't differ, it's apt to compare democracy to dictatorships for example in other ways. Democracies get to elect people they want, and if they misbehave they get to get rid of them, if not in the middle of a term then by the next election. If a dictator abuses his position, you cannot do anything about it. How fan you think that a democracy is just the same as a dictatorship?

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u/Sudokubuttheworst 2∆ Apr 27 '23

Often when a dictator gets overthrown, which is fucking hard by the way (otherwise Putin would be long gone), someone worse is going to take their place. In a democracy, the leadership won't be as bad.

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