Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Reason's Nick Gillespi on Democracy

The best part of this Capitalism vs Socialism debate was Nick Gillespi on Democracy:
Maybe it's worth defining what we mean by democracy. Democracy is majority rule. 
How many of you are Republicans?
Silence.
And how many of you want absolute Democracy now that the Republicans own the white house, and both houses of congress?

Anybody out there? I'm sorry I can't hear you.

Because this idea that Democracy is some absolute good is bullshit, and we all know that. The single biggest achievement in 500 years of western political philosophy has been limiting the state.
Of course someone could say, "well Trump didn't win the popular vote." Which is true, but that doesn't really matter because he could have. If the election was won by popular vote, then we would have just barely escaped the Trump presidency, which is hardly an advertisement for Democracy.

Besides that, Trump might have won the popular vote, if that was the Sport he was playing