I find it odd that so many socialists seem to put more democracy as their highest value, and yet also complain loudly about how competition is bad, making us selfish & ruthless. Democracy *IS* competition, either for elected office or more directly to get your proposal approved.
Democracy is winner-take-all competition. If an individual loses out in a given market context they can keep trying, they can try elsewhere, or they can try something else. The state monopoly on, well, an ever increasingly laundry list of things precludes this in democracy.
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That's populism. Democracy is winning and losing, but then the building of wide ranging consensus to take the country forward. The losers will accept the need to compromise because they lost and the winners will compromise because they want to bring the country with them
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That's an idealistic rendition of Democracy
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