[Zarax]

I agree, but yet it was the best thing humanity got until the french revolution...

[Flipside]

I think every year, a countries leader should be suspended over a vat of Sulphuric Acid. People can vote whether to let him go or not. It means that they are more concerned about the public, and that Politics is only for those the really mean it

[Grey Wolf]

I was really thinking more along the lines of the random small communities founded throughout history designed to use communism and/or democracy, without much thought to the outside world.

[Zarax]

How many good people with less than excellent speaking skills would that kill?
You forget about populism...

[Flipside]

Indeed, I also forgot that most governmental decisions are not made by one man alone

To be honest, I don't actually want to suspend members of government over vats of Sulphuric acid..... well.... not all of them

[Zarax]

A more effective mean would be a system where they would be rewarded or punished proportionally to the results they get...
If they do bad then they'll start loosing their own assets...
That should give a boost to do the right thing...

[an0n]

The Aztecs and Incas did perfectly fine with a dictatorial theocracy for thousands of years.

, if it weren't for smallpox, democracy probably wouldn't have become so widespread.

[Ford Prefect]

The way I see it, capitalism allows for any group of people to pursue any economic system, as long as they force it on no one else. Voluntary association, and the free exchange of goods between consenting individuals.

But groups of people don't function in isolated economic microcosms. Everybody is part of the same system. And while I think a free market is the best setup, there are major dangers for which I don't think America has succeeded in compensating. Some people get royally screwed with no way out. Plus, businesses will glob together to form forces so powerful they might as well be their own nations, and the government, which is supposed to be working for the general population, becomes the ***** of rich people.