Americans want a strong leader.
It is understandable. The Netherlands is democracy to comes closest to ancient Athens. Twenty different political parties represented in parliament. A people who for 500 years have never agreed upon anything.
It is understandable. The Netherlands is democracy to comes closest to ancient Athens. Twenty different political parties represented in parliament. A people who for 500 years have never agreed upon anything.
Is it? It seems incredibly stupid to me. It's putting 'strength', or intensity and effectiveness of action, above whether the action is a good idea or even makes sense. It seems to make competence secondary.
Liechtenstein and some Swiss cantons are the few remaining examples of direct democracy.
Athens killed Socrates using an authoritarian law after all.
Any state, democracy included, can be a tyrant (i.e. cruel and oppressive) against its perceived enemies.