Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time…
I am not suggesting to replace democracy... The thing is that we don't have a democracy in most countries. It's more like the government is throwing a bone to people. Real power comes through lobbying. So in a way, lobbyists have the actual power to elect, and therefore they are the actual electorate in our democracy. The "normal" person is simply just getting his bone as well to keep quiet. And looking at the fact that 40% of USA still support Trump, that may actually be a good thing.
Democracy can both be not perfect and also conducive to a surveillance state. That being said, the experiment is on-going so we can’t definitively say Democracy is the best system (unless of course you are a nationalist, in which case any system which is adopted by us is by definition the best system because we are in it).
The thing that is conducive to a surveillance state is the centralization of power and information. In some cases this is a strong federal government, but Facebook is as big a problem as Sabre is as big a problem as Amazon etc.
But democracy is not more prone to the development of centralized power than any other system.
The issue today is large corporations as well. When Take Two can send private investigators to intimidate a youtuber at his home there is no way to have people's rights be secure.
>That being said, the experiment is on-going so we can’t definitively say Democracy is the best system
Whoever said this? It's directly contradicting Churchill's quote, so not really part of a response to what I said.
