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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3858450" data-attributes="member: 56035">to be honest, guys i listen to dont talk alot about the problems of democracy like what if only 50% of people agree.&nbsp; but they are very clear on democracy being the goal especially economic democracy.i believe chomsky calls democracy a threat to power systems.&nbsp; im gonna watch 2 videos of his right now, but i recall him saying that in terms of political democracy (in part) its supposed to be people getting together coming up with ideas they want to implement, and then electing a representative who they think will carry out their ideas.&nbsp; our current system is so broken representatives come to us with the ideas and we either vote for them or not.sheldon wolin (who i think cornel west and chris hedges wouldve described as one of america&#039;s greatest living political philosophers before he died recently) talks about a permanent revolution i believe, cant quite remember what he said but probably a citizenry engaged in democracy something like the civil rights or anti war protests.&nbsp; chris hedges says the same thing.your definition of republic didnt match with googles definition.&nbsp; not saying google has the right definition of words or anything, but i use it for terrorism definition.i know proportional representation is better than canadas first past the post.i dont think america has a very good system of checks and balances.[MEDIA=youtube]Oh_Zk6Da9fU[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3858450, member: 56035"] to be honest, guys i listen to dont talk alot about the problems of democracy like what if only 50% of people agree. but they are very clear on democracy being the goal especially economic democracy. i believe chomsky calls democracy a threat to power systems. im gonna watch 2 videos of his right now, but i recall him saying that in terms of political democracy (in part) its supposed to be people getting together coming up with ideas they want to implement, and then electing a representative who they think will carry out their ideas. our current system is so broken representatives come to us with the ideas and we either vote for them or not. sheldon wolin (who i think cornel west and chris hedges wouldve described as one of america's greatest living political philosophers before he died recently) talks about a permanent revolution i believe, cant quite remember what he said but probably a citizenry engaged in democracy something like the civil rights or anti war protests. chris hedges says the same thing. your definition of republic didnt match with googles definition. not saying google has the right definition of words or anything, but i use it for terrorism definition. i know proportional representation is better than canadas first past the post. i dont think america has a very good system of checks and balances. [MEDIA=youtube]Oh_Zk6Da9fU[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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