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Originally Posted by DJ FC
Think about what you just said.
Democracy does not promote freedom. It promotes the oppression of the minority by the majority.
Democracy does not promote capitalism. It promotes the taking from the rich to feed the masses.
In a modern democracy, the leaders do not have to answer to the public. The voting base is too large to have any effect. All they have to do is politic.
Answering to the public is not necessarily a good thing: see my first two points.
Democracy does not promote cooperation: it promotes the powerful majority not needing cooperation from the minority.
Democracy does not promote peace: I see zero correlation between democracies and peacefulness.
McDonald's has nothing to do with democracy.
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Not really true; democracy is a neutral vehicle, it doesn't particularly promote any ideology over another.
In the broadest sense democracy is people choosing how they want to be governed; all of the things you listed can happen and indeed have happened, but the real blame has to be put on the leaders who were in power and the people who put them there, maybe at the specific form the democracy they happen under has taken.
The most base of democracy is self determination, not necessarily majority rule; the only time when majority rule is unavoidable is at the formation of a government, after that any number of protections, the constitution for example, can be put in place.
Democracy can take a huge number of different forms, not all of which lead to the unappealing populist bullshit you speak of.