RE: Politicians are liars or corrupt by nature. True or False? Part I: Is this what "democracy" is about?
A pure democracy is one of the most dangerous forms of governance precisely because if a politician (or anyone) can get 51% of the populace to agree to something, it is considered justifiable to force the other 49% of people to do something they do not want to do. That is why there are republics and representative democracies populating much of the planet and zero pure democracies.
The principle of democracy that delegated powers can be used to force compliance is, in its essence, immoral. If it is immoral to use force against someone who has done no harm, it is equally immoral to delegate authority to government to do so.
Based on your line of questioning thusfar, I think what you are really looking for is Voluntaryism. Why is Voluntaryism not taught in schools or part of the curriculum in the vast majority of political science degrees?
Thanks for your comment @cupidzero. You have strong valid points that I agree on.
The core of this post is about how can we solve the problem of having elected officials that exercise power against the will of the people. Partisanship, populism and education are the main issues that have to be addressed.
I bring these topic of True Democracy, to see what aspects from it would be positive in order to have a better political system these days. I acknowledge that there has to be boundaries that have to be put between people and their representatives, and mostly are addressed in Constitutions. That is a definetly a main aspect of republics and I fully support it.
But I think the main flaw of the actual political system is how can we as citizens make our political leaders accountable. And probably giving power by electoral contests is not a good thing if most of the people are not well educated.
Agree! I am working on accountability right now for my series on Voluntaryism, should be interesting.