𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥 𝗢𝗙 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗜𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗠

ᴛʜᴇ ᴇʀʀᴏʀ ᴏꜰ ᴅᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ᴇxᴘʟᴀɪɴᴇᴅ

Elections by popular vote suppress the power and influence of the minority who are no less worthy of representation.

Elections turn politicians into businessman marketing you a product, one that may not always be moral and one that they don’t always intend to commit themselves to delivering, they become commercial advertisers.

Elections cost lots of money, lots and lots of money and as a result, poor people, especially minorities can’t run for office successfully, as well as Populus/progressive politicians who do not back or do the bidding of the private sector.

Media matters, but in a democracy that becomes all the more true, if you are not on the media side, they can wage a campaign against you and cost you the election.

Political dollars undermine the integrity of the process.

Weather democracy was hijacked by the bourgeoisie or create it and for it is debatable, but there are undeniable flaws in rule by vote that must be clearly acknowledged and dealt with.

Nevertheless, in practice, democracy rarely, if ever benefits the proletariat which is by far the majority class, although not the ruling class, and why aren’t they the ruling class in a democracy? The answer is capitalism, the working class isn’t free to be under capitalism and thus capitalists suppress the vote.

Democracy is capitalism in politics, and that is the problem, just like capitalists, people act in their self interest when voting with disregard for morality, minorities and the well being of others and nature. Just like capitalism does worth money, furthermore, money is democracy, our most powerful vote is how we vote with our money, which in a way negates the purpose of democracy if corporations control society even more than government up to the point of boycotting politicians and costing them elections and compromising their abilities to govern.

Democracy is the rule of the crowd in theory, but the class rule in practice.