I strongly believe that Democracy is the best form of government. However there are many fundamental flaws within our society and governmental branches that have led to an alienation of our rights and liberties. Overall though these incidents are minor in scope to all the great liberties and freedoms that the democracy offers.
Specifically I believe the recent provisions provided in the Patriot Act are an intrusion to our rights and privacy, thus a threat to democracy. I am not comfortable, along with many Americans, that the government is fully able to search my private records without any retributions. However they have not done this to me in the past and because I really do not harm the government in any way, they will not in the future most likely. Overall the intended provisions of this act are to protect democracy despite its flaws.
I think that democracy while being able to voice our opinions has a severe time lag in actually doing so. It is often said that society and its values change faster than government and thus our legislators and executive branch can only respond to problems now that have happened years ago. Debates on abortion, gay marriage, and terrorism while mainly issues more in the past are finally being resolved. It is most likely that the top issues of today will be solved later and probably won't be judged adequately at that.
Yet in other forms of government such as communism or socialism such problems might not even be discussed or addressed period. Even though the fundamental flaws in our democracy make it difficult to judge and voice the concerns of citizens to the upmost possible ability, it still is the best available option to do so.
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I completely agree with Josh on Democracy. It is by far more superior to many other forms of government, however there are alot of flaws. The main thing I dislike is our ability of our government to look into our "lives," so to say, by looking into our private files or tapping our phone lines without our say so. Josh says that our government "...while being able to voice our opinions has a severe time lag in actually doing so." I'm not quite sure I agree with this part. Sure it takes awhile for our, and by this I mean the American people, voice to be heard and change something in our society, but wouldn't this be the same in any type of Democracy? We can't expect to just vote on something and have it be changed a month or so later. "It is most likely that the top issues of today will be solved later and probably won't be judged aduquately at that." I can certainly see why one would say this. There are still debates going on about gay marriage (for example) that haven't been solved. But, I believe, with issues that are of the upmost importance, they are being handled as well and efficiently as can be expected. All in all, I'm quite satisfied with our Democracy. I wouldn't do anything to change it even if I could, although I'm sure someone somewhere disagrees.
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