Couldn't have said it better myself. Dow Jones Industrial Average: INDEXDJX:.DJI quotes & news - Google Finance. One 9/11 Tally: $3.3 Trillion - Interactive Feature. Ultimate-governing-system / FrontPage. En.pdf (application/pdf Object) The Third Strategy. Why democracy is wrong. WHY DEMOCRACY IS WRONGDemocracy does not deserve the semi-sacred status accorded to it. The controversy about the Austrian government reminded Europe of that: a victory of the right-wing coalition in Italy will bring a second 'Haider affair'. Democracy is not a perfect system of government - as its supporters often implied. Rising prosperity and educational levels have not improved it. At the end of the Second World War, the democratic system had immense political credit: by now, that has evaporated. Democracy can no longer claim to be self-evidently 'the best system on offer'.
Sometimes it is clearly wrong itself: an anti-racist dictatorship is preferable to a racist democracy. 1. the historical failure of democracy If you compare the present world with the world of 500 years ago, then democracy seems a great success. Inequality Democracy has failed to eliminate social inequality, and this seems a permanent and structural failure. Death in democracy the issue of Africa: global inequality.