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Originally Posted by Damien
V for Vendetta is a movie/comic, it does not serve as a good warning sign of anything in the future. 1984 is still a better example for a nightmare dictatorship government but even that is not a good example.
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V for Vendetta (the movie not the graphic novel) is a fantastic warning sign for how facists can get into power using fear, and oppression.
Bliar filled his cabinet not with competent ministers, but with his friends and supporters. If someone is willing to put friendship and personal support above the needs of the nation, than it's not that further a step to believe that someone can get to power and fill their cabinet with likeminded individuals who wish to remain in power.
1984 is an example of what can occur under communism, but the details of how it came to power is sketchy at best.
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Originally Posted by Damien
Many countrys have a government that all voted in and has not resulted in a totalitarian government. You have a few checks and balances but at the end of day it is rarely in the intrests of the majority for that kind of government. How American governments havent managed to do so? The Republicans have held all 3 houses of power before and did not try to abolish the 2 Term limit for Presidents and install him as a grand leader.
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Many more countries have had an fully elected government and ended up under a dictator which the people cannot remove without bloodshed.
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Originally Posted by Damien
Why would MP's vote on such a system? They have their own agendas to prove. They wont agree to it.
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Currently there is the whip system, which can make MP's vote for something which is against their principles or their own agenda simply to remain in their jobs. To go against a party whip can mean political suicide.
With a leader hell bent on domination, political suicide can turn into actual suicide (or that's the way it's made to look).
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Originally Posted by Damien
The idea that a unelected body is actually the system stopping a dictatorship is crazy.
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It's crazy to have people who have to worry about campaining for elections, making back room promises (look at Tony's Cronies for those) in order to stay in power and reliant on the leader of the government for their position to be in a position to hold that leader to account.
Its crazy to ignore voter apathy and expect reliable turnouts for even more elections.
We have the commons to make the laws, the Lords to scrutinise the laws, and the monarch to enact the laws.