Democracy: As Winston Churchill said, "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." It is not perfect, but the other forms of government aren't either. I personally dislike the idea that the idiots in my classroom who get suspended every 2 or 3 months should get as much a vote as me, nor the kids that aren't as intelligent, but there is no objective way to determine how much of a vote a person gets, and I wouldn't be cruel enough to tell a person they were worth less than my vote. So, I like democracy.
Communism: WTF?! Communism is a socio-economic system. There has never been a longstanding, democratic, communistic country. All the world's communisms were either coupled with dictatorships, oligarchies, or similar governments. It is very hard to comment on communism without the bad policies of certain dictators [cough, cough, Mao Zedong, Stalin, etc., cough] tainting the comments.
Feudalism: You have got to be kidding me. Feudalism is where the strong oppress the weak, and demand that they get free crops for it. You can't say that in a modern world we need to structure the society with government at some ridiculously lofty spot, the army just below it, and then, destroy the middle class. Because that is exactly what feudalism did. You can't call the minor nobles or knights the middle class because they were less than 10% of the population (probably much lower, but those numbers are undeniable, yet drive the point, hard) and the peasants composed 90%. The clergy, the major nobles, and the crown royalty composed the rest, probably about 1-3%. The peasants often died from malnutrition, starvation, and exhaustion, living short lives, while the kings grew fat atop their gold coffers.
feudualism will make a country rich, it also honours the royalty and bring more workmen for work and honour the army and bring knights
"It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other."
-M2TW loading screen, but actually from Francesco Petrarch.
I am not going to pretend to know who he is, just what he means. Why should the royalty be honored? Seriously, what merit do they have other than their particular set of DNA? Why would you want honor for the army, or to have knights? Knights were stuck up @$$holes who bought lamborgini-priced warhorses while their peasants ate beans in their miserable lives of subsistence farming. Like in africa. Except now were not supposed to abhor the rich, we must
honor them.
democracy is bad i'd say! here in saudia, the greed of the king's followers made this country's profits into their personel bank accounts and because of their treachery a proof in jeddah has been made, jeddah is an extremley large industrial city that is making a crap load of damage to the envioment, it does'nt have a sewer system yet its full of hotels and large markets and malls, they pushed their garbage to the sea, FILTHY SAVAGES
You have outlined a serious problem. However, that is the fault of unregulated capitalism, not democracy. And Saudia Arabia has a very unconventional democracy, when compared to the west. (Whether you like it or not, you still have to acknowledge it). There is voting, but there also exists a rather large, government instituted clergy, and the monarchy is somewhat more present than in systems like those of England or the Netherlands. Those two countries, and a couple others, are based primarily on voting, and on powerful constitutions. Democracy has made both countries very successful, though the economic downturn has reversed a lot of that. (I would call it a depression, but I don't know how bad it is over, there. I just listen to what I hear on BBC.
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then it turned to be a city where piety and faith is on the edge
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