12 Feb 2023 2:11 pm
FOS » 12 Feb 2023, 2:19 pm » wrote: ↑ look...under fascists governments the people were not really allowed to select their own leaders. But if you think about it...how is that even democracy? potential leaders can simply lie about what they intend to do...the people may not get what they want.
In fact, US policy has rarely...perhaps NEVER followed policies that were popular among the masses.
fascism decides that a particular person simply makes a good leader. But the important policies they follow is decided by a plebiscite. Direct democracy. That is REAL democracy.
so paradoxically...although a fascist executive does have greater power than one in a liberal democracy (which helps prevent the government being hijacks by monied elites)...there is ALSO greater democracy.
when people vote in referendum in the west (the few times they are allowed), they always prefer a more fascist policy. Thus Brexit. Thus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Cali ... position_8 ...but when the elite do not like what the people have voted for, they simply ignore it (as the case was in brexit) or legally overturn it (as the supreme court did to prop 8)
That's a good reason for me to continue to put my trust in God and not men.