Ipso Fatso said "it's better to live in democracy"

Answer- I remember President Bush saying that he didn't do many poles because the American people expected him to make decisions, not avoid decisions by going to poles. If the people decided that his decisions were wrong then they could vote him out. Of course a sagacious President should be in touch with the sensibilities of the people.

Others (Rousseau and Hobbs from memory) have said that government should be of the people, that the government should have a mandate.

Saddam Hussein said that even dictators have to obey the people in a sense (but his uncle apparently locked his enemies in and burned them alive).

I think that most people would be happier having a local dictator than a foreign democrat. A local dictator would conform to the principle of "government by the people" in a sense. In the sense that a small locality traditionally had citizens that were essentially from the same small group of families and so even a dictator had a common interest in the survival of the group. This is not necessarily true with the fractious nature of mass society.

You have to ask, what is democracy, does it work, in what context, and within what structure, etc.

Ttbn- With the rise in independent parties the uniparty may be losing it's grip around the neck of Australian society. So party politics may not be as relevant soon. As we know One Nation is at 16% of the primary vote, and the Liberal Party is at 24%, due to Liberal commitment to certain problematic "realist" ideological priorities. Traditionally the party system has been seen as a source of stability but I'd admit that the current uniparty has extreme issues (and probably has had since WWII). The main problem is not the parties but the collusion between the ALP and Liberal Parties.

We are made of matter.
We come in to being when matter changes state.
Atoms and molecules are rearranged.
And there has always been matter, so there has always been the potential for us to happen.
We most certainly cannot come from nothing.
In the real world 'nothing' doesn't exist.
It is merely an imaginary concept.
Like the 'number' zero.
There is and has always been something.
And that something is arranged logically.
Which means there is intelligence in matter itself.
That intelligence enables everything we know of to be as it is.
To say anything exist without matter is absurd.
And wherever matter exists, there is space.
For matter makes space.
Altogether, we owe a lot to matter.
Without it, we wouldn't be here.