archomrade [he/him]"You're fooling yourself, we're living in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes...."
No they aren’t. Not all protests are good. It is essential that political disagreements don’t capsize the society we live in. Any protests that can’t be ignored is essentially mob rule
Democracy is mob rule (and therefore authoritarian) where the mob is organized by vote. Democracy is just an relatively egalitarian way to create a mob.
Who let the austrian clown in?
riwoi think this is true for a direct but centralised democracy.
in parliamentary democracies it’s different, with rulers being chosen through popularity contests. the majority of the people usually doesnt have actual controll over individual political decisions.
EldritchBetter to be ruled by the majority consent than minority fiat. Neither is perfect. But the latter is far far worse.
This is true, the world is not black and white.