Fewer than half of young Australians believe democracy is always preferable to other forms of government, as trust in institutions wanes, new research has found.
Useless journalist. At least link the fucking report. Or I guess don’t because people might read it and make their own opinions.
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It’s here and no surprise the context matters.
indicate their agreement or disagreement with the statement: ‘Democracy is always and under all circumstances preferable to any other kind of government.’
only 1.4 per cent of Australians strongly disagreed with the statement, and a further 5.5 per cent disagreed. Another 26.3 per cent neither agreed nor disagreed.
Big surprise, strongly worded poll gets a lot of middle ground votes, but less than 10% outright disagree with the statement.
fizzle@quokk.au 2 days ago
I don’t really get it, the actual question is:
I don’t really know how you can agree with that.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I think if you really experienced democracy you would believe that. Like when would democracy not be preferable?
fizzle@quokk.au 2 days ago
Ah, in the neolithic era?
I’m only kind of joking. The trouble with statements predicated with “always and under all circumstances” is that they are intended to include all circumstances.
The situations we’re most likely to encounter where we want our leaders to be more dictatorial is of course war, where I presume elections may be suspended temporarily.
In the case of a global disaster like a solar flare or meteor strike democracy probably wouldn’t be preferable.
Another issue is that what is preferable is subjective. So if a majority wants to implement a fascist policy persecuting a minority, then obviously democracy is not preferable for that minority.
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
When you’re holed up with a bunch of morons
orbitz@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Mean depends if you accept the people voting as as knowledgeable as they should be before casting a vote, or perhaps those that are not knowledgeable are so few they won’t impact the election.
Then I look at the US and well…see their point… As much as I’m a champion of democracy obviously there are some issues to overcome when that douche becomes president in a democracy. Mostly eyeing the propohanda media but the downside of democracy is everyone should have their choice and all opinions be heard. Though good education needs to be there too otherwise you get an orange stain on world politics.
fizzle@quokk.au 2 days ago
We have compulsory voting in Australia.
Presently we have a centre left government. They demolished our centre right party at the last election, they’re pretty much non-viable now.
I understand why you might be reluctant to force idiots to vote, but it tends to have a normalising effect given that idiot votes are kind of white noise.