Quote from: gustav on April 02, 2014, 01:30:10 AM

Quote from: BADecker on April 02, 2014, 01:01:30 AM

[...] Democracy means that if 51% of the people decide on something, the 49% have to follow, even if they are adamantly against it. [...]

not. that stoneage. mayority-votes lead systemically to building parties and fight over power. it is really out of date. They don't teach you the good stuff in their institutions.

If you have to learn how to understand government, it is too complicated already. All of us are reasonably smart. We all understand when things are right and when they are wrong, if we have all the details. Make it simple, or it will always be prone to corruption.

For example, the Constitution of the United States is reasonably simple when compared with all the laws and codes. Somewhere in the range of 99+% of the codes and laws are unnecessary. Democracy and voting are the things that generally try to encroach on the freedom of others by introducing laws and codes.