I agree that even the Great Firewall of China can easily be beaten by simply using Tor, however, it is now our democratic duty to prevent this from becoming a necessity in the western world.
Anyways, I'm getting carried away here. I simply wanted to point out that we shouldn't use the word democracy so liberally as it is often the thing we should be fighting. Let's talk about constitution instead :)
32% vote for candidate/party A, 33% vote for B, 35% vote for C.
65% are not represented. First past the post needs to go. :(
Now we have the first government ever in a Westminster Democracy that the Prime Minister lost to a vote of no-confidence for breaching parliamentary conduct and we turn his minority government to a majority.
Fucking Canadians are idiots, 40% of them at least.
Don't pretend we have society of laws rather than of men, or that such a thing is even possible.
Who Influences U.S. Foreign Policy? LAWRENCE R. JACOBS and BENJAMIN I. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...
...and for some reason, property rights and freedom of contract are always forgotten. But for a prosperous society, these are every bit as important.
Look at the US, just before the Civil War. Or even pre Civl Rights act. Were all natural born Americans given the right to pursue happiness?
There's a lot of things that make a country work well. Not all of them are in the constitution. New rules need enforcement. There's a lot of levels of government, and a lot of public institutions (such as the police, judiciary, and education systems), and they virtually never work together.
Sometimes, there's no abstraction layers that make sense, and you just have to talk about fixing stuff that's broken.
Democracy is used liberally as you say and it has come to mean something else other than what it was supposed to, this is the thing we should be fighting.