Super Mario, a communist?

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Tman:
I've always though mario looked ALOT like stalin.

RickPowers:
Actually, mouse-clicker's reply had nothing to do with what KnowsNothing was getting at. Our country is not a TRUE Democracy. Real democracy doesn't work, because it requires to much involvement. It's a touchy-feely word we use for what our country (and other "democratic" countries) really is ... a Republic. We make our decisions by electing people to oversee the details. If we don't like the way our elected officials are carrying out government business, we simply elect new ones.

It's the only way to make Democracy work, actually. Otherwise, even basic decisions would take FAR too long.

As for Communism, there's nothing wrong with it. It has this negative connotation that hasn't gone away since the end of the Cold War. Communism is a wonderful idea, but unfortunately, it's always doomed to failure in practice. The theory of Communism is the ideal, but it always falls apart in the execution.

Ian Sane:
"I've always though mario looked ALOT like stalin."

I don't know. I've never seen Stalin look that cheerful. Wario is probably a better comparison.

I've never liked the idea of communism because I don't like the idea of everyone getting everything equal. I think if I do a better job or put more effort into something I should be able to get better. Nobody should be screwed but we shouldn't get everything equal. Even if everyone had the same work ethic (and that would NEVER happen in the real world) people naturally have different talents and someone who is better at doing something should be compensated fairly for it.

I agree that we don't live in a true democracy. Not only because we don't vote for every little decision but the actual election systems in both Canada in the US are flawed so that the resulting decision is not 100% accurate. For example in a BC provincial election about six or seven years ago the party that won the election technically got less votes than the runner-up but still got elected because of the way the system works.

In order for a true democracy to work you would need to have a small population of probably no more than 100 people so that they could vote on any decision that affected the whole community. But even then how do you determine what "affects the whole community".

mouse_clicker:
"Actually, mouse-clicker's reply had nothing to do with what KnowsNothing was getting at."

Our two posts were linked in the similar idea of corruption, though- you're entirely correct that a true democracy couldn't work because it requires too much involvement (we don't even elect our own president in the US, or many other top officials- one of the first things you learn in American History class is that we elect the people who choose who our leaders are), but even if we COULD achieve a true democracy, greed is an ever present mentality among humans and will limit it as much as it can.

Vanilla Thunder:
To my (small) understanding, the problem with Communism is that if nobody in the country can rise above a certain point of financial status and everybody's going to be paid regardless of the work they output, then there's no motivation, nobody puts any effort into the work, and the country's economy falls into shambles, making for a very poor --- and thus very unhappy --- country. Correct me if I'm wrong, though, I'm always up for learning something new. And also, I'm not saying Communism is bad, it's fine and all, it's just that I doubt it can work successfully. That's all.

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