Any Ten People

My Oversimplified view of any "Society"

Lets talk in broad strokes for a minute here. Lets not get bogged down on all the critical details for just one freakin' second. Okay? Can you do that for me? Huh?

In general, if you were to randomly take ten people from all over the world and put them in a large complex where life is possible, with good food and water, and shelter, and waste extraction, and no real law or government... within a week, at most (maybe even the first few hours), they will have developed some way of making decisions for the group that everyone can at least appear to live with. That is/was the natural basis of governments all across the globe.

Sure, these ten random people may be of different gender, color, sexual persuasion, creed, economic status, or even speak a different language, but it is the way of humankind to be curious and to learn and to find patterns and to cope with situations and to adapt. None of us would be here reading this if this was not the case.

If you understand this, (and that's a big IF) then you must also understand that the government and laws of any society are sanctioned by that society.  For you cannot have a majority of people saying one thing while the law dictates they are to say something else.

You may argue that Communism can do this, true, but Communism has not proven itself long-term and for the most part the Democracies have. I grant you that I make this one assumption for my point to be valid.

To be very clear in my opinion...

Democracy is defined by one (1) sheep and five (5) wolves deciding what is for dinner.  I cannot recall who exactly said that but it is very clever and very true.

If you are in the minority in a Democracy by default you have nothing. You are owed nothing and you shall have no voice in politics or society. Now add a currency and several religions into the mix and you have... tada, the "United States of America".

Hi there. I am a proud American. No really, I DO love my country, warts and all, as they say.

But, it is up to those with no voice to create one in any society... or they shall be ignored.