Fewer than half of young Australians believe democracy is always preferable to other forms of government, as trust in institutions wanes, new research has found.

  • orbitz@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Mean depends if you accept the people voting as as knowledgeable as they should be before casting a vote, or perhaps those that are not knowledgeable are so few they won’t impact the election.

    Then I look at the US and well…see their point… As much as I’m a champion of democracy obviously there are some issues to overcome when that douche becomes president in a democracy. Mostly eyeing the propohanda media but the downside of democracy is everyone should have their choice and all opinions be heard. Though good education needs to be there too otherwise you get an orange stain on world politics.

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      1 day ago

      We have compulsory voting in Australia.

      Presently we have a centre left government. They demolished our centre right party at the last election, they’re pretty much non-viable now.

      I understand why you might be reluctant to force idiots to vote, but it tends to have a normalising effect given that idiot votes are kind of white noise.