Ok, the title is just to grab your attention. But seriously, whats all the hullabaloo about democracy?
After the Last Day, it'll be the Church and God, right? Is God going to poll us on what we think he should do next? No! God's just going to act. God will be the absolute monarch, and we will rightfully give praise our beneficent dictator. God's plan for us is not democracy. God's end-goal of government is totalitarianism.
Also, why is everyone surprised at the decline of quality of government? Democracy is all about the majority opinion. If the majority of people think that staplers are too expensive, there will be subsides to staplers. If people are outraged about steroids in baseball, you better believe that congress is going to deal with it. It gets worse and worse as the society grows into a temperamental teenager. When the laws are only regulated by majority opinion, you're going to have to constantly deal with whatever is the majority opinion.
Don't get me wrong, democracy is not "evil". In fact, democracy has great benefits over governments like communism, fascism, timocracy, etc. However, toting it around as the best thing ever cannot be the stance of a Christian. Also, communism, fascism, monarchies, and the like are not "evil" either. Simply put, these systems are just ways to organize a society to realize human fulfillment.
I personally am a bit more autocratic than the general Westerner. I hate red tape with the passion of a thousand burning suns. The current US system, at it's fastest, passes a law in about a month, but most cases are much, much longer. "The only thing that saves us from the Bureaucracy is its inefficiency" is the greatest hindrance to human achievement.
After the Last Day, it'll be the Church and God, right? Is God going to poll us on what we think he should do next? No! God's just going to act. God will be the absolute monarch, and we will rightfully give praise our beneficent dictator. God's plan for us is not democracy. God's end-goal of government is totalitarianism.
Also, why is everyone surprised at the decline of quality of government? Democracy is all about the majority opinion. If the majority of people think that staplers are too expensive, there will be subsides to staplers. If people are outraged about steroids in baseball, you better believe that congress is going to deal with it. It gets worse and worse as the society grows into a temperamental teenager. When the laws are only regulated by majority opinion, you're going to have to constantly deal with whatever is the majority opinion.
Don't get me wrong, democracy is not "evil". In fact, democracy has great benefits over governments like communism, fascism, timocracy, etc. However, toting it around as the best thing ever cannot be the stance of a Christian. Also, communism, fascism, monarchies, and the like are not "evil" either. Simply put, these systems are just ways to organize a society to realize human fulfillment.
I personally am a bit more autocratic than the general Westerner. I hate red tape with the passion of a thousand burning suns. The current US system, at it's fastest, passes a law in about a month, but most cases are much, much longer. "The only thing that saves us from the Bureaucracy is its inefficiency" is the greatest hindrance to human achievement.