Everybody is allowed to vote, as long as they are white: Felt like a real democracy but is a fake
Everybody is allowed to vote, except women. Felt like "the best democracy" once upon a time, but is also fake. Not even a half democracy.
Many of the things that today are normal could (and will) be deeply embarrasing in the future and so similar to a real democracy as a plastic imitation of a turd coated in glitter.
A real democracy is difficult to find, but really easy to spot. Must fulfill this three rules: 1) One adult citizen, one vote 2) All citizens are equal and therefore all of their (legally issued) votes score the same. No votes can count double or x100. The only vote scoring less than other is the x0 blank vote. AND 3) everybody can apply for candidate if they desire so, and participate on an equal footing.
If one of this three rules can't apply you have spotted a fake: Everybody can vote freely and is encouraged to vote, but there is only a party allowed to show... rule 3, you have found a dictatorship.
If there is a group of people legally allowed to vote, that put a valid vote, but their votes are then zeroed and removed in postproduction then is the rule 2.
I assume those are supposed to be necessary rather than sufficient conditions, because my immediate thoughts are:
1: Why adults? Why citizen? How do you define each?
2: Why make them equal when you just excluded minors and non-citizens entirely — e.g. you could make it so 13-18 year olds get counted as (years less than 18)/5 of a vote, why is that bad?
3: why is that important, why not require passing a basic civics qualification?
Meta: when non-white people were disenfranchised, were they also treated as “not people”? If so, what other categories currently considered “not people” should in future be treated as people? (If any)
> 2: Why make them equal when you just excluded minors and non-citizens entirely
There is a worlwide consensus about that people from other nations are not allowed to participate in elections of the government of a country. We would need to change the legal definition of a sovereign country for allowing it, and the benefits are unclear (to start, the president of all small and middle sized countries would be chinese).
There is a worldwide consensus also about that laws have to treat minors in a different way than adults. More indulgent. They have different rights and duties. Minors are expected to commit mistakes.
Allowing a toddler to vote for a party would imply explaining first what means terms like "left", "my left, not your left", "rigth", "communism", "liberalism", "populism" or "fascism", when they should be crashing windows with baseball balls instead. This would hit close to adoctrinating boys and girls and forcing them to choose one side (and deal with the unavoidable consequences in a yet enough confuse and complex phase of their lives).
> 3: why not require passing a basic civics qualification?
Lets people decide with their vote if is a politician or a clown. This is the purpose of voting. If the semi-automatic lonely boy is democratically elected by the majority, people has spoken, and I'm fine with that.
It should be understood that rule 2) means neither the US nor the EU are a "real democracy".
US fails due to the electoral vote issue. And the EU on the fact that smaller countries have a more representatives/citizen in the EU parliament than larger countries.
It would be interesting to know if there actually is a democracy that fulfills those rules...
Everybody is allowed to vote, as long as they are white: Felt like a real democracy but is a fake
Everybody is allowed to vote, except women. Felt like "the best democracy" once upon a time, but is also fake. Not even a half democracy.
Many of the things that today are normal could (and will) be deeply embarrasing in the future and so similar to a real democracy as a plastic imitation of a turd coated in glitter.
A real democracy is difficult to find, but really easy to spot. Must fulfill this three rules: 1) One adult citizen, one vote 2) All citizens are equal and therefore all of their (legally issued) votes score the same. No votes can count double or x100. The only vote scoring less than other is the x0 blank vote. AND 3) everybody can apply for candidate if they desire so, and participate on an equal footing.
If one of this three rules can't apply you have spotted a fake: Everybody can vote freely and is encouraged to vote, but there is only a party allowed to show... rule 3, you have found a dictatorship.
If there is a group of people legally allowed to vote, that put a valid vote, but their votes are then zeroed and removed in postproduction then is the rule 2.