Francis Fukuyama: Democracy's Failure to Perform

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• CO

  @colocracy7427 · 8 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF8CJSQf238&amp;t=4127">1:08:47</a> &quot;People want democracy&quot; I think people are more concerned with the ideals of balanced and fair representation itself rather than the tools supposed to give effect to these ideals. Remember, democracy &quot;rule by popular vote&quot; is just a tool of political appointment, nothing more, nothing less, everything else is just narrative. Democracy doesn&apos;t need defending but fair and balanced representation does. The moment you start defending democracy, you stop looking for a better alternative, you are effectively positing democracy as the only available solution. That&apos;s the real threat, that no one is looking to design democracy&apos;s replacement.

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• AN

  @antonyliberopoulos933 · 9 years ago

  Excellent!

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• CH

  @charleswafula6420 · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF8CJSQf238&amp;t=3591">59:51</a> &quot;...part of the reason I wrote these books is to teach myself how this stuff came about...&quot;

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• RU

  @ruchpat1 · 7 years ago (edited)

  They didn’t give him enough time to speak in this video.

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• CL

  @clovisra · 9 years ago (edited)

  Many apologists of democracy as an ideal system (maybe all) forget that in general the choices in an election are made by naive people that are willing to believe in lies if the lies are presented in a agreable way. The greeks are praised as the inventors of democracy but almost never is mentioned that Socrates (and Plato) were capable of foreseeing the dangers of such a system of political choice. In my country, a formal democracy, we live in a hell of corruption and there is no way out at sight mainly because the corrupt politicians make the laws and therefore are always doing &apos;legal&apos; things. I don&apos;t think that in the USA it is different. The great majority of the american people is not interested in finding the truth. They are happy to be entertained, to eat, to drink and going to church. What I think makes America (the USA) a good country is because there is always a good amount of citizens willing to fight and do not permit that the fundamental liberties be stolen by the corrupt politicians. In my country such fighters do not exist (at least I don&apos;t know any that are not partisan and are really looking for the benefit of the nation as a whole).

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• NA

  @nayanmipun6784 · 6 years ago

  Democracy and individualism both are equally required

• IN

  @in_estasi · 5 years ago

  having mixed feelings watching this in 2021

• QC

  @qck1234 · 9 years ago (edited)

  From what Fukuyama says, Trump is the Antithesis of what is meant by the rule of law, and what a leader of a modern democracy is supposed to represent. How many laws seem to no longer apply to Trump, and how excessively Trump benefiting financially from his position...what Fukuyama calls a neo-patriarchal state.. He is also creating laws that should be done by the legislative branch, much more so than ever before.

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• ED

  @edofitsum501 · 7 years ago

  i see it

• MI

  @mireillelebeau2513 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Democracy is more than fair and balanced representation. &nbsp;Democracy is a guarantee my voice will be heard, justice will be given and Truth will be understood and accepted and journalist will be informed and trusted and no Big Lie will never be accepted. &nbsp;There is no freedom without Democracy.

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  @fhxak2004 · 9 years ago

  US No.1 !!!!!wow

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• ML

  @mlaroche7 · 9 years ago

  Hi, please let me &nbsp;take a moment to say a word about thorium fission, for him is a nuclear energy source that was first developed &nbsp;at the Oak Ridge national laboratory in the 1960s and is a completely safe non-carbon producing non-nuclear waste producing Energy source with in estimated easily obtainable natural reserve of 10,000 years, Let me repeat it again, &nbsp;there is enough thorium ore lying around to &nbsp;last the entire world economy 10,000 years. The molten salt thorium fission process, Furthermore is operated at one atmosphere, So when I say molten salt &nbsp;thorium fission is completely safe That is to say get is not capable of exploding, As pressure on both sides of the reactor containment wall are the same. &nbsp;Thorium fission is also as stated in incredibly clean producing no long-lasting nuclear waste whatsoever, in fact waste &nbsp;plutonium 232 from &nbsp;Standard light water reactors and atomic bombs can be incorporated into the molten salt Core and the remains of its &nbsp;potential energy can be extracted, furthermore with close to a 75% efficiency Capture oppose to the .7% of the standard light water reactor we can afford to not only make this a Carbon neutral but a carbon negative virtually closed loop energy system. Thorium fission beads out nearly every other conceivable energy source except for Fusion which as always is 50 years away from possible viability. So in other words we could in a cost efficient manner using the well-known, Haber-Bosch, Process extract carbon out of the atmosphere. Let me finally just say, that most of the wars being fought in the middle east and Central Asia, can be regarded in general, as resource wars, a massive transfer to a thorium based economy would not only make everyone Energy independent overnight but would help to eliminate the need for such self-destructive behavior. Thank you for taking the time to read this and please feel free to research any of this that you care to, peace.