Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ...
by jacquesm on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @06:03AM
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Democracy is far from perfect. So it is perfectly ok to use democracy but to always be suspicious of that which gets decided democratically.
That's not hypocrisy, it is simply the best adaptation to reality that I can come up with.
And it has nothing to do with 'getting what I want', if NL will vote massively for Wilders in the next election (our local light-weight populist get-rid-of-all-Islamists-and-our-problems-will-magically-disappear politician) then I will consider that a failure of democracy.
Not because I don't get 'what I want' but because it will likely cause great harm to my country.
That's not hypocrisy, it is simply the best adaptation to reality that I can come up with.
And it has nothing to do with 'getting what I want', if NL will vote massively for Wilders in the next election (our local light-weight populist get-rid-of-all-Islamists-and-our-problems-will-magically-disappear politician) then I will consider that a failure of democracy.
Not because I don't get 'what I want' but because it will likely cause great harm to my country.