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Democracy is free choice which is Hashem’s will.

Authocracy is dangerous currently as the Nazis and the Inquisition has shown.

“What is the purpose of this thread?”

It is an attempt to justify the OP’s support for yesterday’s coup by falsifying Torah. OP should ask Jews who survived what Fascist Italy or Vichy France were like. Or Nazi Germany. Or the Soviet Bloc. OP would have been much more at home in those countries, until they came….

Health, abortion is free choice as democracy dictates. It does not mean anyone has to do it but under certain conditions it might be necessary. Nazis misled people to follow them as Trump does.

Re: Health “And how did the Nazis come to Power?!? With a Democratic Germany.”

The typical system of governance for most of human history has been ultimately based on “might makes right.” If my side is physically stronger, than I could subjugate you to any rule I wish. And if you have a good life, that’s only because I happen to have mercy on you. Democracy attempts to end or at least limit this notion by making the leaders more accountable to its citizens. So it’s a noble idea, albeit there are obvious kinks. The kinks are most manifest when people disregard these democratic principles, like ignoring votes or engaging in violent overthrow.

Another obvious annoyance with our democracy, as you allude, is when you personally and morally don’t like certain laws in place, such as abortion. But it’s better than a Christian coming to power who c.v.s. makes you go to church and bans Yiddishkeit (as an aside, a poll last year shows that something like 80% of fundamentalist Christians wanted to institute “christian law” in the U.S.). Despite this annoyance, at least democracy gives you a chance to win people over to your viewpoint with your obvious chein and budding intellect. Compare that with Kabul or Iraq where people blow each other up in order to implement their religious laws on others. Want to move there? Until Moshiach comes, I’ll take democracy.

Germany’s democracy wasn’t the reason for the authoritarian regime. Yes, a democracy allows bad people to introduce their dangerous views and possibly come to power. But that’s a given in a might-makes-right society. In fact, it was Hitler’s doing away with democracy that helped him to do what he did (like canceling elections, for one!). In the end, a stable democracy depends on maintaining your good faith in the system. And its ability to protect people’s rights better than a ‘might-makes-right’ system depends on maintaining good neighbors.

If one follows 7 mitzvos he would not do it anyway, otherwise forbidding abortiions caters to the rich who travel to a place where it is allowed.

If we’re going to discuss abortion, someone needs to point out that what’s legal in America is illegal in most of the world but for China. America has the loosest abortion laws in the entire world.
How about that?

What about Shmuel being unhappy when Jews (democratically) ask him to establish the monarchy?

Btw, most nations had kings for centuries not because they were dumb and never heard about democracy. Democracy was not considered viable – with masses of uneducated people making decisions. That is why we do not live in a democracy, but in a Republic.

We partially solved the “uneducated” problems in 20th century, but created an opposite one. Now, there are oligopolies in education and information industries, so people (aka voters) get fed well-crafted information en masse. We can see this in almost every discussion – everyone is capable of coming up with a statistics that confirm their views, selected from some source somewhere.

I think the reasons for the public frustration is this lack of reasonable discussion. If the country would let Trump use his considerable energy to fight Chinese, Russians, and COVID instead of NYT front page, we would be in a much better place right now.