Talk:Anti-Democratic Thought

I would appreciate anyone who is able to add the arguments against democracy by Aristotle or other Greek philosophers as well as the Founding Fathers. Though they often supported democracy they criticized the rule of the poor and ignorant as leading to totalitarian governments that invade personal liberties. This is evidenced by the Founding Fathers creation of a constitutional republic over a direct democracy. While not full rejections these are important criticism. I have confidence that someone can clean up my points and find proper references from primary sources like the Federalist papers and add a coherent and beneficial addition to this article Rockydragon6 05:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Will comply. You're right, the "Founding Fathers" were not the democracy cheerleaders they've been made out to be.

This could become a big article. Openman 08:25, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Why are there arguments for democracy on the Anti-Democratic Thought page?

This article seems to be incredibly unclear, rife with mistakes and hasty generalizations, poorly written, and poorly organized. And considering that this leads directly from the almost non-existent "Criticism" section on the page on Democracy, it seems relatively odd that this article is so incomplete. It'd be greatly appreciated if someone could clean this up. Infiniteawe 03:33, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

So you want to know why? "This article seems to be incredibly unclear, rife with mistakes and hasty generalizations, poorly written, and poorly organized." Look at Ultramarines edit history...he's basically a full time conservative American propaganda writer. Thus "Democracy" has biased information lifted from "Freedom House" and other American government controlled think-tanks but the criticisms of democracy occupy less than one paragraph. One could cite equally unbiased information about America from old issues of Pravda.

Don't try to argue with propaganda-opedia or you'll be attacked by random "non neutral POV" or "assume good faith" arguments. All used selectively and hypocritically. Any subject that is ideologically important such as "democracy" or "capitalism" is a magnet for the most rapid ideological fanatics, and wikipedian "truth" is written those who spend thousands of hours per month at editing articles to fit their ideologies.

Give up on wikipedia, it's run by fanatics and teenagers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.54.94.24 (talk) 10:38, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Name change
I don't know what, but this page has to be moved to somewhere else. This name is horrible. There's no page on "Antisemetic Thought" or "Anti-communist Thought"! But "Anti-Democracy" doesn't sound very good. Think of something. VolatileChemical 16:58, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


 * VolatileChemical, I absolutely agree that something is wrong here. I actually think that the page should be reorganized and folded into the Democracy page, which is sorely lacking in its Criticism section. Meanwhile, this page should be deleted. As you said, there are few pages on "Anti-insert thought system here." It seems absurd that "Anti-Democratic Thought" would be the exception. Infiniteawe 20:17, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, absolutely I do. Good to see someone agrees with me. You're right, the page should be spliced with the main article. I'll set up the merge templates. VolatileChemical 19:48, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Original Research
This entire atricle is mostly OR. Please add the necessary cites, or the OR will soon be edited out. Raggz 01:32, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Delete
A flawed subject title. No viable content. It would be best to create a "criticisms of democracy" page and delete this one. 67.58.254.68 03:18, 22 September 2007 (UTC)