tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368719462012-02-15T22:52:25.201-08:00Sir Winston Churchill once said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the rest. He is right. Its the best form of government but it also has its flaws. I think that its flaws endanger democracy and needs to be fixed. This blog is for like minded people who want to see democracy improved. I invite people to sumbit essays. I will publish even those I do not agree with so long as I find them interesting.Ohmyrusnoreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36871946.post-30809304583529334382011-09-28T00:09:00.000-07:002011-09-28T03:31:05.677-07:00

That's the conclusion I read after reading a book on the Spanish Reconquista. When Christian rulers in Castille or Aragon wanted to fight their Muslim enemies, they would call for Crusade. War was supposed to be for a noble cause and in those days, fighting for God was the noblest thing one can do. Their Muslim enemies also did they same, only that they called for Jihad. Yet when you get into

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After Anders Breivik committed his atrocious murders in Utoya Island, the Left was quick to blame anti-Islam writers like Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller and my friend Fjordman etc. But that is a lie. The fault ultimately lies with the Left. According to David Wood of Answering Muslims, Breivik explained why he resorted to violence in his 1,500 page manifesto. First he had a bad experience with

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-Those following the news these days cannot avoid noticing that many wealthy democratic nations, from Japan via Britain to the USA, simultaneously suffer from heavy public debt. The fact that this serious problem affects many different countries at the same time indicates that it is systemic. There are probably several reasons for this, but the hypothesis that it is at least partly related to

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Much has been written about the Euro sovereign debt crisis. But all the commentators in newspapers have missed an important point. The crisis is at its heart a crisis of democracy. The Euro Crisis started with Greece running out of money to pay its debts. The EU rallied to lend it money to keep Greece from defaulting. This is with much understandable reluctance from the Germans. Greece had been

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American journalist and author Thomas Friedman has written several columns in The New York Times during the fall of 2009 where he questions the Western democratic system. There are perfectly legitimate reasons for criticizing certain aspects of the democratic system, but I'm not sure if his are the right ones.If I recall correctly, Mr. Friedman applauded exporting democracy to an Islamic country

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President Obama's health care plan is running into trouble even from his own party. In his quest to be President he had to make all sorts of promises and the center-piece was reforming health care. He claimed that tens of millions of Americans are not covered by health insurance and the cost health insurance is also rising faster than the average income.He promised to expand coverage, improve

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Recently, Congressional leaders were outraged at the CIA and Dick Cheney for allegely not telling them about plans to kill Al Qaeda leaders. Hello? Have they been reading their newspapers?Ever since the Afghanistian war following 911, the US army has been dropping bunker busting bombs on suspected hide-outs where Osama bin laden may have been hiding. All this while the CIA has been using predator

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According to a Congressional report by Darrell Issa, government intervention in the housing market is the main cause of the Financial Crisis.The report explained how the Clinton administration in 1995 issued a National Homeownership Strategy, which weakens Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's lending standards and insisting that banks 'work collaboratively to reduce homebuyer downpayment requirements.'

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The Billionaire Boss of Formula 1 racing stepped into a minefield when he publicly praised Adolf Hitler.He said that Hitler could get things done and added that democracy "hasn't done a lot of good for many countries, including this one".This is the sort of thing I feared when I started this blog. In my very first article, I warned that if democracies cannot solve its problems, people will turn

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I am aware of the fact that some British people speak of Europe as “somewhere else,” to which they do not belong. In my opinion, Britain is very much a part of European civilization whether they want to admit so or not, but I am willing to grant them a special place within the European tradition. There is a reason why English became the first global lingua franca. While I focus mainly on the

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Welfare Excuses: the causes of multiculturalism and western self-loathingMany writers are openly baffled by European Society’s self-loathing, currently manifesting as multiculturalism and political correctness. And resentment at the fierceness with which these orthodoxies are enforced.Some more-or-less random examples:· A 14-year-old girl arrested, fingerprinted, photographed, held in a

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I have long been dissatisfied with the general performance of politicians whom I now call "votrepreneurs" to emphasise that they behave like entrepreneurs. Then I realised that its not their fault but the fault of the Democratic system itself. This realisation led me to investigate how the ancients viewed the problem of organizing government.In the Discourses, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote that there

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Here is an interesting article by my friend Free Hal:The Barring of Geert WildersThe 2 reasons advanced for excluding Geert Wilders from the UK are: public order concerns, which was the UK governments stated reason although this doesn’t fit into the national security power they invoked; and Wilders wants to ban the Koran, so we have every right to ban him, which is the line advanced by most

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Mark Steyn recently wrote an interesting article called, "Exporting their mistakes worldwide"In it, he accused the G20 governments of not telling the people the truth in order to enhance their electorial prospects:If government has a role in this crisis, it ought to be to reverse the combination of unaffordable social programs and deathbed demographics that make a restoration of real GDP growth

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The recent fracas about AIG's bonuses is a symptom of what is wrong with Democracy. AIG has been the receipient of $180 billion of bail-out money. It used $165 million of that money to pay contractual bonuses to its employees.This touched off a firestorm of protests from the public. Frightened by the angry mob, the House of Representatives recently passed a law to tax away 90% of the bonuses.In

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Here is a good article written by Free Hal. It explains clearly some of the weaknesses of Democracy and why it can collapse. What's wrong with Democracy?"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." - Ben Franklin"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote

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The reason why I started this blog is to highlight the current flaws in a modern democracy. I have argued in my earlier articles that the personal interests of votrepreneurs (politicians) do not always coincide with the long term interests of the country. The voters may be forgiven for thinking that votrepreneurs will do what is in the best interests of the country. But that is false.The

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In a few days' time, Obama will be sworn in as President and his Presidency is already in need of a bail-out. He knows that the economy is in the dog-house. If he does not turn it around in four years' time, he will not be re-elected.So this $1 trillion stimulus plan is also the Obama Presidency bail-out plan. What does he intend to do with the money. Other than the $300 billion tax cuts, its

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Recently, a Canadian court ordered Canada's airlines to provide two seats to obese passengers for the price of one. This is Socialism gone mad and the triumph of Gramscian Marxism.Whether he realised it or not, the judge was applying Marx's dictum, "From each according to his ability. To each according to his needs."The obese has a need - the need of two seats. The airlines which has seats must

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President-elect Barack Obama is in favor of bailing out the Big 3 car makers - Ford, GM and Chrysler. That comes as no surprise because the Union workers support the Democratic Party. They are his "customers" and politicians behave like entrepreneurs. That is why I call them "votrepreneurs".One argument is that the US must save the the Big 3 or it will no longer have an auto industry. This is

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Now that Senator Obama has won the elections amidst a crisis in capitalism, it is timely to write what I call the Capitalist Manifesto. Senator Obama is without a doubt a Socialist with long time ties to the radical left in America. He has talked about "spreading the wealth". The Democrats are poised to expand their control in Congress and will be able to pass any law they wish.As Thomas Sowell

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Recently, Oxford University's chancellor, Lord Patten attacked the Labour government for pressurizing Britain's top universities to admit students from low performing schools and deprived areas. He accused the government of using universities to compensate for the failure of state schools. This is a good example of how the democratic process screws things up. As I explained elsewhere, every

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The Left (both in the USA and Europe) has always portrayed the Right as neo Fascists, who if they have a chance will take away our freedoms. This is false. In this essay, I shall prove that Fascism is really a leftist phenomena. The danger of dictatorship comes from the Left, not the Right.Firstly, what is Fascism? Most people can't define it. They assume its some right wing ideology which they

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In the midst of the worst financial crisis since 1929, people are asking, "Who's fault is it?"It is human nature to find someone to blame. We all want to know who the culprit is. Some blame greedy and incompetent executives who over leveraged their firms and drove them to the ground. One favorite target are the speculators who shorted financial instruments.All these could have parts to play in

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Currently, the democratic system is in my view not working properly in any Western country. It is more or less dead in Western Europe, where most of the real power has been transferred to the unelected organs of the European Union, anyway. Virtually all Western countries have lost control over their borders. This is not a sustainable situation. You can call your political system a democracy, a

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Sarah Palin's selection as the Republican Vice Presidential candidate has shaken up the race. Currently polls shows a reversal of fortune as McCain surges ahead of Obama in the polls.First the American voter turned to an unknown politician, Barack Obama in great enthusiasm and now they are turning again to another unknown politician, Sarah Palin, with equal entusiasm. What's going on here?

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My friend Fjordman sent me a link about Behaviorial Economics that got me thinking. This new area of study is the intersection of human psychology and economics. In economics, we assume that people will always make the rational decision.This is proving to be a wrong assumption. The truth is that we often make irrational decisions in economics as well as in voting. Behavioral Economics also

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Recently, US rep. John Murtha stunned his Democrat collegues when he said that the 'surge is working'. This prompted him to backtrack by saying that 'the war in Iraq cannot be won militarily' and again called for withdrawal. His colleagues were stunned because he had predicted the failure of the surge and is a prominent critic of Bush's Iraq war. This also came at a bad time when Democrat House

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“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.” --- AristotleWhen I told a friend what Aristotle said years ago, she thought that he was crazy. Doesn't the rich have advantages over the poor? The rich can afford the best education for their children and the best healthcare. Its true that an individual rich

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In an interview with Singapore's founder, Lee Kuan Yew, an answer to a question is relevent to this blog.SPIEGEL: During your career, you have kept your distance from Western style democracy. Are you still convinced that an authoritarian system is the future for Asia?Mr. Lee: Why should I be against democracy? The British came here, never gave me democracy, except when they were about to leave.

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Like Jim McGreevey, Larry Craig is another great actor.Larry was arrested in a Mineapolis airport toilet for allegely trying to solicit sex from a undercover police officer. Larry is a conservative Republican who has been against gay marriages. So it turns out that he is likely to be gay himself. Larry has vigorously denied he is gay and his family is standing by him.His kids believe him, but

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In a link sent to me by Scandinavian blogger, Fjordman, Luxemburg´s prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker said: "We all know what we need to do, but we don´t know how to win elections after we have done it." Juncker has candidly pointed out one weakness of democracy. This is what I am trying to get at in my blog. In my earlier article, Democracy needs a Reformation, I pointed out that it is

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Dennis Prager in his latest column at Townhall.com wrote that Democrats want things that are bad for America. He gave a long check-list:(1)The first fault-line to exploit is the economic divide. By playing up resentment and envy, votrepreneurs (politicians) always call for a transfer of wealth from the more capable, frugal and diligent to those less so. This is a flaw in democracy as I pointed

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In democratic societies the press, the Fourth Estate, should supposedly make sure that the government does its job properly as well as raise issues of public interest. In practice, we now seem to have a situation where the political elites cooperate with the media on making sure that some topics receive insufficient or unbalanced attention while others are simply kept off the agenda altogether.

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The worst mass murderers from the twentieth century and possibly for all time were Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Hitler - all left wing dictators. Did I say Hitler? I think that most people would not object to my calling Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot left wing dictators. But Hitler? Many people think of him as a right wing dictator but that is not correct. Why is Hitler a creature of the left?To begin with,

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Here is a comment by Fjordman from the Gates of Vienna that I believe is relevant tothis blog :gatesofvienna "When I criticize democracy, this should not be taken as an indication that I believe in elitist rule. I criticize it because it clearly doesn't automatically ensure freedom of speech and security for life and property, which is the hallmark of true liberty. Another problem

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This article came to my attention courtesy of Fjordman, the insightful Scandinavian writer:Vote buying in Canada "Naresh Raghubeer is executive director with the Canadian Coalition for Democracies Ontario Auditor-General Jim McCarter reported that the province's Immigration and Citizenship Ministry has been dispensing millions of dollars in grants to ethnic groups under a process

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Above is a famous Russian painting called "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks". In it contains a lesson about dictatorship and democracy. I have created this blog to point out the flaws of democracy hoping to stimulate discussion on how to fix the problems. But occasionally, I also want to remind ourselves what is great about democracy by pointing out the flaws of its alternative - dictatorial

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It is reported in NISNEWS that the Labour Party is trying to muzzle a young Labour party member for fear of angering its Muslim voters.The young member, Ehsan Jami, was fighting for the rights and safety of Muslim apostates. Shariah Law dictates that apostates are to be put to death. This is something I have warned against in my earlier article, Will Muslim Immigration destroy western Democracy?

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That is the name of a documentary that Logan Darrow Clements is trying to make to rebut Michael Moore's upcoming "Sicko" which touts Socialized Medicine.In an interview with Frontpage Magazine, Logan explains why.He said, " I simply don't want the government to force me and everyone else intosocialized medicine. I don't like being forced around when I haven't done anything wrong and I can see

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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has voted against the troops funding bill to court the anti-war vote. These two votrepreneurs (politicians) are between a rock and a hard place. They have to please the anti-war crowd but cannot be seen by the average American as been unpatriotic by not supporting US troops at a time when they are facing danger.Voting against the bill because it does not have a

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This was a question, Ralph Peters answered in an op-ed published in the New York Post. Peters cited the "strategic errors of the administration, the pernicious effects of the media and factional hatred within Iraq". Also corruption, poor leadership and bloodlust of Al Qaeda all made matters worse.His solution is that the US should adopt more ruthless methods including torture if lives can be

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Here is the latest article by the incomparable Scandinavian writer,Fjordman:The Gates of ViennaOf relevance to this blog are his comments that supports my thesis that modern democracy is not working well and may be heading for collapse:"As Alexander Boot writes in his book, 'How the West Was Lost', "a freely voting French citizen or British subject of today has every aspect of his life controlled

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He was a great actor!That was the picture Dina McGreevey painted of her estranged husband and former New Jersey (D) Governor, Jim McGreevey.In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, she said, "I think it was all a charade for him."She also explained that on the day her husband announced, "I am a gay American", she was made to smile in spite of the internal turmoil.Dina said, "As his world was falling

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Mr. Spog said...If a senate consisting of members with life tenure were considered too undemocratic (as seems likely), one possibility would be to qualify its veto power, much as the U.S. President's veto power is already qualified. For example, the lower house might be given the right to override a Senate veto by a 2/3 vote. (Presumably the lower house would then need, e.g., a 3/4 supermajority

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How goes the war on terrorism? This is really the war against the ideology of Radical Islamism which began long before the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in 2001.Following September 11, there was a rare moment of political unity in America. But now that unity is gone as votrepreneurs (politicians) go back to their usual form. They are more interested in promoting their

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"This war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week. "...Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader last Thursday.Why are Democrats so eager to claim defeat?Well that is the way, democracies work. Votrepreneurers (politicians) on both left and right must always portray their opponents as failures. Since this war was started by a

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There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.- John AdamsThis is an astonishing statement coming from one of America's Founding Fathers. In this article, I will try to explain how politicians often place personal ambitions ahead of national interest to the point of destroying their own country that they claim to serve.For a start, it may be a suprise to many that political

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The unity of mosque and state, indeed mosque and military seems to me to be the deadliest element in the mix.The other most populous religions of the world, Hinduism, Christianity and Buddhism lack this element. And in those contexts, making a separation between the sacred and the mundane is far easier. Those belief systems are also more amenable to independent internal reform. as their clerics

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With increasing number of Muslims now living in western countries, particularly Europe, I have to ask this rude and politically incorrect question.Will Muslim Immigration destroy western democracy?To answer this question, we have to look at whether Islam is compatible with democracy. Democracy means rule by the people. It is a form of government designed for the rule of a nation state. Rule of

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Here is an interesting article by Fjordman. What I found striking and of relevence to this blog was his comment on European votrepreneurers importing immigrants to help them win elections.Electing a New People: The Leftist - Islamic Alliance - by FjordmanBertolt Brecht wrote a satirical poem after the 1953 East German risings: "The solutionAfter the uprising

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Too Much Democracy (and too little) is Bad for you - by OhmyrusThe most democratic form of government is when every decision is decided by a vote. This is known as direct or pure democracy. A pure democracy is of course impractical as the average citizen neither has the time nor the ability to understand the complex issues that affect a modern nation. There will be great contention and frequent

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Democracy and the Welfare state by OhmyrusIf seventy people rob thirty richer people (in a country of 100 people) of their hard earned money that is criminal. But if these seventy people elect a government to tax the thirty richer people and give the money to them, then that is democracy. Does that make sense?Essentially there is no difference between a welfare state and robbery. A robber uses a

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Article by Lonestranger:While I admire your fervor for prolonging a dying country, I think you have to accept the ultimate truth that it is a dying country. Like all things living, countries have a finite life span, and they too must cease to exist. In the case of America, the argument could easily be made that it ceased to exist in its intended form a long time ago. What we have now is an

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Did America's Founders want Democracy? By OhmyrusWe have come to believe in democracy almost like a religion. But I think it is time to rethink it because it is not working well. Therefore it is useful to start from first principles by looking at what America's Founders were thinking when it crafted the Constitution of the United States.'Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and

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Democracy needs a Reformation By OhmyrusWhy should a welfare bum have the same one vote that a taxpayer has? Why should a drug pusher have the same one vote as a Mother Theresa? Why should a school dropout have the same one vote as a college professor? In a democracy, Mother Theresa gets one vote, the same as any gangster like say the Sopranos. Oops, those guys are only TV characters.The one man,

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