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Captalist democracy is not real democracy
Can you really have 'true democracy' in a species that has such a strong herd mentality as humans do? True democracy depends on 'free will', 'independent thought', and 'knowledge'. When the population in general can be so easily swayed to go along with one person's dogma or another, willfully ignorant and politically unintelligent, what is the meaning of 'democracy' except that it is about 'best at intimidating, charming, or marketing'? In a herd species, the 'election' is all about 'who do you want to be the dictator?'
I don't want true democracy, I want people to not starve to death because they have no money to buy food, I want people to not have to die by cold because they don't have money for buying clothes and a afford a place to live.
It's very funny you're asking for a perfect democracy when the problem is we don't even need a "true democracy" for things to get way better than they're right now, the worst socialism is hundreds of times better than any capitalism
You misunderstand my post. I am not in any way asking for a perfect democracy, I am clearly stating that a 'perfect democracy' is undefinable in a herd species. Humans are just not neurologically, evolutionarily, and hormonally suited for 'pure democracy'.
What a person wants, and what is best for them, are often contradictory. Any species that can suffer from addiction will never form a workable 'perfect democracy'. Nor can it work effectively and efficiently in any species that the personality trait of narcissism can be expressed in the population .
However, one of the best examples of a workable 'consensus governing structure' historically is the Iroquois Confederacy.