Chris Hedges: "In this year’s presidential election I will vote for a third-party candidate"

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156. Yes, they do at times, as Churchill said...

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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

Democracy is messy regardless of which system of governance is in place.

Corruption occurs in proportional representative governance systems as often as it occurs in others.

Re Germany, check out the numerous corruption issues that have occurred within their various governments.

Can you definitively point to an active system of governance that has NOT had "corruption, obsolescence and falling into authoritarian and modern feudalism" as part of it's governance history?

I cannot think of one but am more than willing to be educated about such a system.

Edited to add: Here is an actual system of governance that is very unique, it is a consensus form of governance being practiced today in the Territory of Nunavut in Canada. It has NO parties at all:

"Nunavut will have no political parties at the territorial level. Instead, the legislative assembly of the new territory will operate on the basis of consensus politics. Like the aboriginal decision-making system it mimics, the legislative assembly's decisions will be made according to the consensus of the majority of its members rather than political party lines. Political parties exist in Nunavut only for the purposes of supporting candidates running in federal elections.

In February 1999, Nunavut elected its first 19-member legislative assembly. (A groundbreaking proposal to elect an equal number of women and men to Nunavut's legislative assembly was defeated in a 1997 Nunavut-wide plebiscite.) The members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) hold a secret ballot to elect a speaker, who oversees operation of the assembly. Also elected in a secret vote by the MLAs is the premier of Nunavut, as well as the executive (cabinet). The regular sittings of the assembly will be open to the public."

http://www.nunavut.com/nunavut99/english/public_gov.html