postyX - April 04, 2025True Democracy Cannot Exist in a Multiracial society
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Summary
In this episode, I discuss why a true democracy can never exist in a multiracial society. I discuss examples from the United States, Yugoslavia, and apartheid in South Africa, to name a few. I also talk about the role of identity in the development of a democracy.
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Let's talk about democracy and what I mean when I say democracy and how it can never exist in a
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multiracial society. And I'm not going to say multicultural because multiculturalism is
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something totally different. True democracy, defined as a system where all citizens have
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equal representation and influence over governance, faces significant challenges in
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any multiracial society. This is due to inherent tribalism, you know, competing rather interests
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and historical patterns of division. While the idea of democracy assumes a unified populace
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capable of rational consensus, human nature and history suggest that racial diversity often
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amplifies factionalism, undermining the cohesion necessary for such a system to function effectively.
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So one of the examples here is the United States, which a lot of people often use as an example,
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but for different reasons. So obviously, the United States was founded on Euro, Anglo, European culture,
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religion, Christianity. And, you know, it was intended for the European settler or European
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person. However, they have a longer history than some of the other Western countries,
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including, you know, slavery. So there is a little bit of a nuance there when it comes to
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with the black population. However, it's kind of been flipped on the opposite side in the US,
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you'll see now, there is so much favor or I mean, things are starting to kind of change slowly here.
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But there is has been since slavery was ended, there's been a slow push. And I guess in the last 10 years,
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you wouldn't say it's exactly slow, but to favor one group over another, and that would be obviously
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the black group. So you're going to have that in any country. I know most people think, well,
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it's white supremacy in the US. It's actually not. It's quite the opposite. So you can't have a true
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democracy in situations like that, because one group is always going to rise to the top and put their
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own interests above everybody else. Another example you could use is Yugoslavia. Now it's a
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multi ethnic state that disintegrated in the 90s. Under Tito's rule, a semblance of a unity was
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maintained. But beneath that, the Serbs and the Croatians, the Bosnians, and other harbored,
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and others rather harbored a deep, you know, seated ethnic loyalty as most ethnic groups do. When
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democratic elections were introduced after his death, the voting was largely split along ethnic
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lines, you know, empowering nationalist leaders like Slobodan Milosevic, and Franco Tudeman, I'm
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probably butchering that. The result was not a unified democratic will, but a descent into war and
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genocide, illustrating how racial and ethnic diversity can transform, you know, democratic
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mechanisms into tools for exclusion and conflict rather than a consensus. Again, people are going to
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side with their tribe. Now, the biggest and most, you know, I guess it's not even talked about as
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much, although it is coming to the forefront more now, is the South Africans transition to apartheid,
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right? To a somewhat democracy. Well, they did that in 1994. And it highlighted, obviously, the fragility
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of the multiracial, multiracial, rather democratic ideals. You know, I guess Nelson Mandela was trying to
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at least the claim was that he was trying to foster reconciliation. But, you know, but that
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tended to prioritize the black majority's interests over the white majority interests who in South
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Africa have been there, obviously, the longest they've, they're ones who cultivate the land who,
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you know, are the farmers for the most part. So you can see what's happening now. And it's,
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it's definitely heading towards ethnic genocide of the white boar or the farmer. So, again,
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can they really have a true democracy in, you know, this is like a very short summary of it,
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but you really can't have a true democracy in multiracial society, because everybody is tribal,
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that's just human nature, they're going to tribe up with their own group at the end of it, despite,
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you know, maybe generations of being born into another, you know, ethnic group or whatever like
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that. At the end of the day, I believe your genes, your, you know, biology is always going to win out.
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So, I mean, the examples I gave, they kind of underscore a big issue is that in multiracial
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societies, groups, often the group identity trumps the individual equality. You know, people,
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like I said, tend to align with their ethnic kin, their racial or ethnic kin, and viewing governance
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as a zero sum game, basically, where one group's gain is another group's loss. You see that quite
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often with the black community. This dynamic erodes the trust and shared purpose that true democracy
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would require. I mean, historically, homogenous societies like the ancient Athens, despite its own
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exclusions, could approximate democratic ideals more closely, because common identity reduced
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total or sorry, reduced factionalism. In contrast, you know, multiracial states were capable of a
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formal democracy. They struggled to transcend tribal instincts, leaving the system vulnerable to
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obviously manipulation and equity, I guess you could say, or collapse. I believe it usually heads
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towards collapse. That's generally the trajectory of most of these things. So, you know, a true democracy,
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it's an expression of a unified and equal populace. It remains really unattainable, ideal in the face of
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racial diversity. That's at least my opinion. I have not found a historical example yet of a truly
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multiracial, democratic, truly democratic society that has succeeded for more than maybe a century or
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two. But I'd be, I would love to hear if anybody else has a different opinion on that and put that in
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the comments here. But yeah, I just don't know why they keep pushing this whole, you know, they kind of
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make it the same, mean the same thing, like democracy, you know, is multiculturalism, or is
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multiracialism, we can't have one without the other, when in fact, they're actually working towards
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each other, you know, like opposing each other, and it's causing the fraction, which obviously is
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probably, at least, again, in my opinion, all part of the PSYOP.
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they can't have one without the other, but it doesn't matter what you're Howl Ohlig