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How can the West be concidered Democratic when mass protesting achieves nothing?

by Guest55888  |  earlier

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The best example was when hundreds of thousands marched through London to protest the war in the Middle East and the Government did absolutely nothing regardless of all the protesters? I'm fairly sure there are countless other examples in other countries as well.

Given the fact that as a people, us Brits are easily walked over, that so many stood up in protest and nothing was done, how can people say we live in a democratic society?

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  1. At least in the UK the police don`t shoot you for protesting...................Yet!


  2. Well our protests might be futile.....but if we lived anywhere else we'd have all been shot for them

  3. The protest said it all.The same happened under the tories when the miners were stopped from moving round the country.Our freedom started to disappear under thatcher & labour have carried on with the tory policies.

  4. You are lucky to be in the really democratic west where mass protesting is permitted. However  violent protests are not permitted, usually some anarchist group jumps on the back of a peaceful protest and that's why they are broken up by the authorities. Perhaps you would prefer to live in Zimbabwe or one of the so called communist democratic republics where protesters are beaten up or shot by the government forces if they dare to protest.

  5. If you don't like your government, vote against them. If the majority of your countrymen agree with you, you get new leadership That's democracy.

  6. Like the man in an answer below wrote  time will tell. Other than that perhaps using Separation Of Church and State or some variant to place Greed itself as a religion in a Church Of Greed outside politics. A religion cannot inter fer  with other people under this law ,rule. Neither can National Armies be used to fight wars if Greed were a religion. All adherents could do would be worshipp it. None can be harmed under this law. maybe try both this approach and protest.

  7. Sorry my friend you have missed the plot, the fact that you can quite freely post questions on this site is an example of democracy in it self, albeit, a small one,

    You write the massed protests achieved nothing again I must disagree that  emphasises democracy that they could mount a protest in any event.,our parliamentary system is democratic you vote , you elect, or not, as the case maybe.

  8. You cant run a country by mob rule. If the people are that upset, and a majority of them vote for change, change will happen. Just because a few thousand people get mad does not and should not effect a nation and how it does business.

    I don't always agree with the President, Bush, Clinton, Ford, Carter, Reagan or any of them, but, I didn't protest, I voted and that is the only way a voice can be heard. If enough people vote, their voices get louder until it is heard loud and clear.

  9. there is no democracy in western Europe or the USA now .its been gone longer than we realize

  10. Because while there might have been a few hundred thousand marching in London, there were 60 million people who did not.

    Democracy does not mean giving in to the demands of a single group. Democracy means giving people the chance to vote in a free and fair election.

    That's what general elections are - you did vote in the last one I take it??

  11. There were also large protests in the UK by Muslims to wanted death to the Infidels.  Should the government have started shooting the English?

  12. You are wrong.  Two million protested in February 2003 against the invasion of Iraq.  It eventually led to Tony Blair's downfall.  It took some time, but it finally happened.  And Brown is slowly taking British troops out - not as quickly as I'd like to see them, though.

    Also note that last week that the Iraq war was the cause of the ruling party losing the general election in Australia, as well as a couple of years ago in Spain.

  13. Decode this lyrics " Upside down"

    It's not only the west.?

    What about the east?

    When they were living in misery hanging upside down in caves too without being aware of the mess of their own creation in own backyards.

    Luke 6.41-45

    What do you think?

  14. It's not apathy as politicians like to claim. We don't want to vote for any of the present bunch in any of the parties. They are inept and incompetent and if you doubt it, read the papers.

  15. That MAY be your experience; however, over an 8 years period I watched that method of protest stop a Raging war in Viet Nam.  THAT, and several thousand tons of TNT dropped on Hanoi in '72; but, it was the prostests' that really forced it to an early end.  I think the trick it to stick with it for the long run; just as the "Joint Chiefs of Staff" do with thier war plans.

    Am I on the U.K site??  Or are you on the United States site??  I'm confused here, or my machine is.

  16. you elected those leaders. therefore it is democratic society. if things got stopped everytime some hippies protested what kind of society would that be?

  17. Democracy is being eroded by Authoritarianism in UK.

    The truth becomes a lie and becomes the truth again.

    Freedom is slavery.

    Work makes you free.

    War is Peace.

    Be bothered, be very bothered !

    Stand up or be cut down.

  18. Protests must be considered by the government because it is the impulse of the people.

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