User talk:BrettBurnard

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November 2017
Hello, I'm Longhair. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Post-WWII anti-fascism, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Longhair\talk 15:21, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Democracy
I see that someone else already reverted your claim: "Democracies, are characterised as not being efficient. This is because multiple parties fight over policy pulling the state in multiple directions." because it had no source to back it up.

I just want to explain why it would have been invalid or at best debatable anyway; while it's true that multiple parties often pull a democracy in different directions, it's still a line of hierarchy with an elected highest command (President/PM + parliament) who takes the final decisions on most issues. Democratic nations are certainly not inefficient, the countries with the best democracy scores also tend to be among the most developed. Dank Chicken (talk) 16:03, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

You make very valid points but I believe that the democratic system as a whole is inefficient because all my life I've watched politicians discuss what they want to do to fix society and nothing ever comes of it. The left and the right always fight about policy. It seems that every year a new proposal is always reversed by the other faction. I don't support totalitarian dictatorships by any means but I believe that if the power was more centralized decisions would be made and things would get done. Thank you Dank Chicken for your imput. BrettBurnard (talk) 21:21, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

I moved your response from my talk page, it's better if we continue our discussion here so that it'll be under the same headline.

While I see your point (and partially agree), I still belive that representative and constitutional democracy is the best way of government. Sure, some desicions will be implemented and removed back and forth, but as long as politician X convinces the citizens why their ideas are better, the best laws tend to stay in use even if there is a power change. This is because the newly elected government can easily be replaced the next election if they make too unpopular desicions. For that to happen in a full or even semi-dictatorship, there needs to either be a revolution or some serious reforms first. However, your thoughts are interesting; thank you for your input too! Dank Chicken (talk) 21:38, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Socialism
Socialism isn’t anti-democratic, read the article please. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 21:05, 22 November 2017 (UTC)