Democracy is the new rain dance from ancient Greece. A rain dance empowers people to magically fix their drought. The people procure resources, develop artistic production, possibly use alchemy and astrology to create elaborate religious-rules, and cultivate supernatural dances for "enhancing" and accurately performing their superstitious dance. If they work long enough, then they'll eventually receive rain from mysterious benefactors. From a scientific perspective, the rain was caused by many tangible factors except the rain dance, but the superstitious people don't understand that correlation does not equal causation. In a similar fashion, people fanatically promote and practice democracy’s majority tyranny or mob rule, because they believe it magically improves their society.
Here are some of the flaws of democracy:
Problem #1: Democracy is a euphemism for mob rule or majority tyranny: the largest voting block, the most popular faction, or the most powerful team gets whatever it wants, and the lesser factions are neglected. Individuals are nonexistent in a democratic choice. Democracy, mob rule, and mandatory democracy are all the same superstition. Mob rule doesn't efficiently work for science and engineering, art, consumer shopping, professional sports teams, and many other aspects of our lives.
Imagine how the quality of our lives would greatly decline if we had to obey the majority to decide on what clothes to wear, what to eat, when to sleep, where to travel, how to stay physically fit, and so forth. Voluntary democracy is much better: vote yourself to do something with other similar volunteers; you can't vote to force other people to do what you want to do.
Problem #2: Democracy assumes everyone or almost everyone votes. In reality, about one-third of eligible voters do NOT vote. This means the results of democracy are determined by approximately two-thirds of eligible voters. This further means a relative majority (not an absolute majority) usually determines the winner of an election. In other words, the largest minority ends up choosing for everyone, or democracy's results are determined by more or less 35% of all eligible voters.
Problem #3: Democracy incorrectly assumes voters have the morality, the intelligence, the time (only 24 hours per day for sleeping, breaks, work and/or school, family duties, personal demands, personal interests, and voting), the effort, and the resources to discover the right choices over a vast range of topics (e.g., politics, economics, technology, justice and morals, military affairs, law enforcement, safety standards, and infrastructure) for a single person, for many people, for the majority of people, or for everyone.
The ugly truth is that many voters vote for their own benefit or for what they believe is good. A person’s voting pattern could determined by the person’s cultural background, ethnicity, education, personal experience, religious or philosophical dogma, popular culture and mainstream media, business interests, political agendas, etc. These aforementioned topics could vary significantly from one person to another person, from one community to another community, from one social-economic status to another, and so forth.
Even under ideal environments, everyone makes minor and major mistakes throughout his/her entire life. Democracy forces everyone to support the largest-minority voting-block's good ideas and bad ideas.
Problem #4: Democracy's participants (the voters, the candidates, a bill's supporters and opponents, and all their associates) are highly susceptible to popular propaganda (especially from the organizations that control the mainstream media); wealthy individuals, institutions, clubs, associations, private associations (e.g., both the Democrat and Republican Party), religious groups, and corporations that use their abundant resources to create lots of propaganda or biases throughout society; demagoguery or pandering; naive, stupid, or neurotic voters; dishonest bureaucrats; bribery (e.g., lobbyists, special interest groups, political action committees, revolving doors, & lucrative speaking tours); unfair ballot access; corrupt vote-count (e.g., fake votes, connived votes, and dividing voting regions or gerrymandering, thus, a minority in a larger voting region becomes the majority in a smaller voting region); violent threats, blackmail, smears and slanders, and actual attacks; and other tricks to cheat the democratic process.
Problem #5: Democracy is musical chairs for the ruling class: it only offers a few options that are usually provided by the incumbents, the ruling political parties, and their associates (e.g., official education system, popular media, major corporations or the too-big-to-fails, and central banks). Most times, you'll have to choose the lesser evil, which is still evil. Then the single most popular choice is imposed on everyone for at least a few years.
Problem #6: Democracy allows people to vote on policies and laws, but the proposed and formalized regulations are almost always written by, redacted by, interpreted by, and enforced by an oligarchy and their loyal subordinates (e.g., court system, law enforcement, taxation bureaus, & regulatory agencies).
Problem #7: Democracy struggles to fix buyer's remorse, and it doesn't force candidates to fulfill their campaign promises (not that spoiled voters are a good thing). Democracy doesn't punish, obtain compensation, and/or restrain people who are responsible for the bad votes. Democracy makes slow, ineffective, & irresponsible repairs.
Problem #8: Democracy still involves human sacrifice for, allegedly, the greater good. A democratic nation like the United States of America has a long history of using democracy as a moral pretext to interfere with other nations in overt and covert operations that may or may not involve the military, mercenaries, rebel factions, drug lords, organized crime, and/or police officers. In a way, the Goddess of Democracy replaced the God of Jupiter and the Christian God for the justification of a highly interventionist foreign policy.
“Our God, gods, or democracy is the one true path. We must vanquish the false God, the evil gods, or the inferior governments to make way for authentic Holiness or justice,” chanted the hypocritically unctuous fanatics. “Death to the infidels, heretics, or nonbelievers!”
Democracy is repeatedly used by governments and rebel factions as a moral pretext in order to: (1) Connive the rights, needs, and desires of minorities or, even, majorities. Democracy IS mob rule. (2) Use agent provocateurs, secret agents, useful idiots, traitors, minority rebels, assassinations, gov't quislings, company puppets, expansion of privileged corporations, proxy wars, covert warfare, and overt warfare to install docile democracies in foreign nations. The foreign nation must be subservient, obedient, or a willing sidekick to the desires of the dominant nation. Democracy as a moral pretext is not new.
Throughout history, hegemony is hidden under a pretext of humanitarian excuses or great ideals (e.g., harmony, superior or the true religion, superior civilization, human progress, equality or egalitarianism, liberty, human rights, & national defense). An example of the former: you would stop child abuse by your neighbor, so you should support foreign intervention. An example of the latter: we must spread justice and modernization to the world. One problem with simplistic analogies: stopping your neighbor's child abuse is A LOT easier, A LOT less complex, and A LOT simpler than rebuilding a nation or spreading greatness. It's similar to comparing a person putting on a band-aid on a minor injury vs life-saving surgery.
Alternatives to Democracy:
Alternative #1: Democracy, mob rule, or majority tyranny are extremely ineffective when it comes to promoting laws that are founded on individual empowerment and contributions (e.g., the US Constitution’s Bill of Rights). Any good community is founded upon each member desiring to work with other members directly (e.g., closely working together), indirectly (e.g., being distant or non-interacting contributors in a system), or a combination of both. Any onerous community is based upon some members forcing their will and/or using dishonest persuasion against other members, and, possibly, vice versa. Thus, a good nation must have effective laws clarifying each citizen's basic rights and responsibilities.
Basic rights and responsibilities for each person generally involves the following concepts:
A fundamental moral-code: A person could do anything as long as s/he does not significantly and unfairly harm or damage another person or another person's property. In other words, a person should decrease the probability of unfair harm or damage to zero or insignificance, and decrease the severity of harm or damage to zero or insignificance. Self-defense that is proportional is acceptable.
The Bill of Rights protects each person's right to (1) choose his/her religion(s) &/or creed(s); (2) his/her privacy, private property, protest for justice, appropriate self-defense & national defense, & weapons for fair self-defense & national defense; (3) create &/or use his/her own monetary system; and (4) his/her life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness.
Invention rights (e.g., a copyright, intellectual property, trademark, & patent) will be granted to inventors to promote good creativity. Invention rights will (1) identify the inventor, (2) identify the invention, and (3) possibly allow the inventor a profitable monopoly for a temporary duration. The third privilege will only be given to an inventor who invents something that is reasonably new and complex.
Because no inventor creates something completely from scratch, and because every inventor uses ideas & objects created by other inventors, an inventor will enjoy a monopoly over his/her invention for 20 years. The inventor must share his/her invention's profits with the inventor's employer, investor, &/or creatively contributing assistant. After 20 years, the invention becomes freely available to the nation’s citizens.
The Bill of Responsibilities require each person to proportionally & at least adequately contribute to the well-being of the nation's public property, national defense, & laws. The general public will work with the government to decide which laws are mandatory (e.g., laws that deal with preventing significantly unfair injuries and damages plus wrongful deaths) and which regulations are optional recommendations (e.g., laws that try to upgrade an acceptable situation to a better option).
A citizen must pay taxes for the services arising from mandatory laws. A citizen has a choice to pay for the optional regulations. A citizen who does NOT pay taxes will lose the benefits of the government services.
Courts decide on whether or not a defendant is guilty or innocent by using a professional, volunteer jury, or the jury consists of respectable and competent people who choose to be a long-term members of the jury.
Compensation & punishment for disputes or illegal actions: Compensation should fix or restore the significant and unfair harm or damage as much as possible. Punishment should prevent the misdemeanor or felony from recurring. No excessive compensations. No excessive, cruel, & unusual punishments.
Mentioned laws & unmentioned laws shall be interpreted to maximize each person's freedom & responsibilities, and NOT the government’s or private organizations’.
Alternative #2: Democracy is vastly inferior to direct representation, which allows each citizen to represent him/herself in government matters, hire a representative, or voluntarily unite with a group of people, and then the group selects as many representatives as they want.
For the sake of national unity and facilitating government matters, a nation could use representatives or delegates for maximum representation. The government could divide society into 10 groups, with each group of the same size in terms of population. Additional divisions could also represent the nation's economic hierarchy (from richest to poorest), racial history or ethnic background, geographic location, or any other social characteristic.
Each member of each 10% group selects one choice for his/her own representative. The top-7 most-popular candidates in each group win selection process. These 7 winners should represent the vast majority of voters. Thus, if a society has 10 voting groups with each group voting for its own top 7 candidates, then the society should have a net total of 70 elected representatives.
Each non-criminal adult, without any major mental deficiencies, over the age of 25 is allowed and required to select his/her representative. If the eligible adult refuses to participate in the selection, then the eligible adult must become his or her own representative. If s/he cannot fulfill this obligation, then s/he must select a representative. If s/he refuses all selections, then s/he will be randomly assigned one.
If the nation's population is in the millions or greater, then the nation could have one selection group for every 100,000 to 1 million citizens. Thus, a nation of 100 million citizens is broken into 100 selection groups, with each group selecting its own top-7 candidates. This creates a net total of 700 representatives.
These representatives create, but do not ratify laws for a nation. These laws include the government’s budget. They also select their own delegates. Each representative selects one choice for his/her delegate. Again, the representatives are broken into evenly sized selection-groups. For example, permit one-hundred representatives per group. If 700 representatives exist, then there are 7 selection groups. Each group selects their own top 7 candidates. Seven selection groups with 7 candidates per group equals 49 selected candidates or 49 delegates.
As previously mentioned, the representatives propose, but do not authorize the laws. The delegates approve or reject these offered laws. The delegates must obtain a 100% agreement to establish a new or redacted law.
The delegates also have their own selection process to choose an executive branch, or the government bureau that is primarily responsible for the enforcement of laws. Each delegate makes one selection to be his/her executive minister. The top 7 selections become executive ministers of the executive branch. These executive ministers have to work in complete agreement to manage the enforcement the nation’s laws.
For the most time-sensitive responsibilities, the 7 executive ministers unanimously select 1 prime minister to quickly and temporarily deal with emergency situations. For example, the prime minister is allowed to deal with urgent military situations, natural disasters, epidemics, and other sudden crises for a period of 2 months. Afterward, the responsibility is handed over to the 7 executive ministers.
This selection method for the general public, for the representatives, for the delegates, or for the executive ministers could also be used to nominate high-ranking judges, sheriffs, military generals and admirals. The military generals and admirals lack the power to start a war or create national-defense policies, but they have the right to reject unnecessary wars.
The entire nation could have a town government, a city government, a state or provincial government, and a national, central, or federal government.
Ideally, all citizens must follow and promote the rules and values listed in the previous section called “Alternative #1". These essential laws or values could only be changed by the aforementioned selection process of representatives, delegates, and ministers.
The general public will undergo this selection process for representatives every 7 years. After the creation of the very first representatives groups, these representatives must immediately select their delegates within 6 months. Afterwards, the representatives select their delegates every 10 years. The delegates select their executive ministers every 5 years. The executive ministers select their prime minister every 3 years.
Military commanders, high-ranking judges, and top-ranking sheriffs should be selected every 13 years. They could be selected by the general public, the representatives, the delegates, the executive ministers, or the prime minister.
All selection processes are paid for by the government. Donations from private sources are acceptable, but donations are allocated evenly to all candidates. This prevents the wealthy from dominating and polluting the selection process with mainstream-media propaganda, lobbyists, political action committees, and so forth.
The compensation of the selected government officials is determined by their approval rating. Higher approval ratings result in higher compensations. Lower approval ratings result in lower compensations. All government officials must publicly report any money or benefits (e.g., revolving-door opportunities, lucrative speaking tours, promotional activities, meals, service and/or product gifts, and vacations) they accepted from non-government sources.
For selected government officials who break the law, the high-ranking judges handle their criminal cases or civil lawsuits. If an impeachment is successful, then the replacement is immediately chosen by the selection process. The replacement finishes the rest of the term from the impeached official.
A judges-tribunes agency could be selected by the general public or executive ministers to monitor and restrict corrupt and/or incompetent high-ranking judges according to the nation’s fundamental rules, constitution, or fundamental human-rights laws. The judges-tribunes agency constantly watches over, punishes, restrains, and/or impeaches the corrupt and/or incompetent high-ranking judges.
Alternative #3: After at least 200,000 years of evolution, homo sapiens should develop governments or communities NOT based upon tribal chiefs; feudal lords; any type of an oligarchy (e.g., plutocracy, technocracy, corporatocracy, or kleptocracy); and majority tyranny, mob rule, the greater good, or democracy. We should be able to develop a government that provides professional services for universal and essential needs, instead of a government that maliciously or tries to benevolently lord over us. We could test out these new systems in small, volunteer communities.
Using the scientific method, we should be able to constantly develop improving government-systems. Technology constantly advances forward by means of science. Why not expect the same from our governments? Why suffer through a clumsy, expensive, and outdated government-system?