Life, Liberty, & death to Democracy

Democracy is nothing new, the greek were practicing way before a little podunk part of North America got this idea about self governance. 200 plus years later, we seem to have painted ourselves into a corner, at least from what I can see.

Democracy seems to be the rallying cry for all things liberty and or freedom. Well at least here in the West.

I may be able to relate to Socrates (I think it was him), who also shared misgivings about the practice.

While people should be able to do what they want to do, there is one thing that sets us above the rest of life here on this planet. That is the ability to reason, but due to the HUGE levels of ignorance that exists here I don't see how it benefits society. It seems to be used like any other invention of man primarily for evil. Evil in the sense of the priority of the individual versus the group.

People should have rights, but they end when it impacts society as a whole. This goes down the line of almost all of society and what it touches.

Religion while not being banned needs to be put in its place.

Sensible gun control

Extending schooling to all and in all forms, from an evidenced based curriculum.

Civil service and/or Military service, the military is there to protect the US. We need to cut back our world policing. Wars are a last resort.

We are the species on the planet that effects it the most, we need to stop being so destructive to it and ourselves. This means giving up presupposed ideas about what liberty and freedom mean. It needs to be brought into modern thought and what we've learned since 1776.