What is the answer to radical Islam? This is NOT an anti Islam thread

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badgenome said:

richardhutnik said:

As opposed to a non-Democratic Representative Republic, which is an unresponsive oligarchic collection of elites that aren't responsive to the wishes of the people?  Ultimately, either the government is responsive to the wishes of the people, or it isn't.  If you say "democracy is garbage" you don't want a government responsive to the people, but responsive to something else, and catering to a few.  Of course, you could the argue various forms of Minarchist, all the way out to anarchist, but that can end up turning into a battleground of abilities, complete with losers dying off.  Of course, seeing this (as most people do), ends up causing you to want to have SOME government out there, for SOME form of protection.  

Well, I am a minarchist, and I don't want a government that needs to be responsive to the wishes of the people. The government is not a genie and should stick to executing its one legitimate function - protecting the rights of the citizenry. Ideally, there would be no way for the majority to veto the rights of the minority or to award to itself special privileges at the expense of others.

And vice versa...