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If you think about it, Democracy was a response to corrupt Monarchy. But in its reactionary nature, it still maintains the underlying principle that an arbitrary State "authority" gets to tell others what they must do, or violence will be done against them.
Its crazy looking at how far back this normalization of oppression goes.

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anonymous · 107w

Democracy was a solution in a time where communication capabilities were limited, in terms of timeliness and scale.

Adeptus · 107w

Well. Corrupt elites, anyway. Athenian democracy, for example, was in response to the previous ruling Archons.

wertyyryyr · 107w

Monarchy is far better than democracy, just see the fruits of both. But I'm not defending monarchy.

The only examples I've been able to find of nations being a democracy, are a few limited instances in ancient Greece. Are those the ones you're referring to, or are there others?

Green Astronaut · 107w

We will have monarchy again...all over, the history of himanity is people killing eaxh other over things, democracy is just a small weird period, it will allways get back to killing others to take over...

Most don't want to hear this, but it leads back to religion, which was the original use of force (by appealing to the wishes of gods) to control the masses, or the tribe. Religious authority/oppression paved the way for state authority/oppression. There have been very few secular states, historicall...