I am an INFP my self : Why is this sub so negative and depressing ?

What I'm saying is that they are by two distinct ideas, one being a socioeconomic model where the means of production aren't privately owned by instead are owned by the workers, with no state entity.

The other is a system of government in which representatives are elected through a vote majority to serve the interests of the constituents who elected them.

Democracy sacrifices individual sovereignty, something I'm vehemently opposed to. Though this sacrifice is taboo, the noble savage should persist but it doesn't, we are forced into a modern social contract where at birth we are issued a certificate and a number and are raised within the framework of a stringent system of control - something people don't care to question provided their basic needs are met.

What I was getting at with my post, is that western media often portrayed the USSR as a communist state, where it was anything but. Even now the media still refers to china as a communist state, but it's nonsense, the term is contradictory but nobody cares to explain this contradiction as to clear up these misconceptions would only serve to proliferate such ideas therefore prompting a challenge of the status-quo.

Socrates was opposed to democracy, and I agree, without economic democracy you cannot have political democracy. If you own a large media corporation (television networks, newspapers, etc.) what is to stop you from making propaganda to get a politician into office who will provide large tax concessions to media companies. Most people take what the read in the paper at face value, the point is that you can invalidate someones vote by manufacturing public opinion with propaganda, so you have an intellectual who is capable of independent thought and social analysis vs some guy who read in the paper that political party A is soft on illegal immigration.

Don't get me started with how much of a farce bi-partisan college democracy is (United States) you are basically voting for the same bureaucrats, and then you believe your country is carrying the torch of liberty or something? such foolishness. Sorry to be frank with this. Also lobbying, it's much worse in the US than other representative democracies where regulation dictates that political sponsors be transparent.

/rant

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