Editor: Re: Take back the government, Burnaby NOW, Letters, July 6.
Victor Finberg makes the classic assumption that democracy is a good thing, and he then calls for “making it better.” Chris Campbell does too with his glowing editorials on democracy. These two will now learn, to their horror, that democracy is an inherently flawed, evil, and criminal form of government. Democracy is substantially less heinous than autocracy is, but this does not imply that it is good. It is but the lesser of these two evil governmental types.
What’s more, democracy can’t be “improved.” A given political system is either good or evil; there’s no possibility of “making it better.” Democracy is a heinous system because (a) political groups such as the Conservatives, Liberals, Socialists and Greens are obviously evil and (b) more damningly, common people are – how do I put this? – not good. The average Tom, Dick and Harry and the average Mary, Jane and Sally neither know nor care greatly about the societal economy, environment, animals, justice, safety, etc. Most people – society as a whole – are self-centred or of distasteful or evil philosophy, making them unsuitable for politics. Only a rare few are philosophically good.
Thang Vu, Burnaby
