Reply #13: Democracy is (or should be) when everyone has the [View All]

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possibility to take part in the politics of his/her country. To make sure that everyone can do this, it is most important, that everyone gets informations; and you need a quite good education, so that you can use these informations. And you need a little time to make use of your rights to take part in the political life. So a democracy can only work, when everybody at least has enough money to get a good education ( for himself and his children), get every information, and have enough time (means: no need to have 3 Jobs to prevent the children from starving). When there are few very rich, and masses of poor, a democracy could hardly work. The rich would always try to suppress the poor, and they have the means to do it. So a stable democracy should try to avoid this situation, that people are too poor to take part in the political life. An economic adjustment, a little help for the poor, is a precondition for democracy.
No political democracy without economic democracy.:thumbsup: