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i) It promotes dictatorship by the majority -rule by the larger part of the people against the leaser part
ii) It promotes class struggle - instead of being ruled by all the people for the general welfare, democracy sometimes becomes a rule by one class or group
iii) It encourages corruption - It is mostly the wealthy who are able to use their money to influence the voting of the poor ignorant
iv) It is more often than not very slow and wasteful - Decision making take very long and democratic activities such as elections are cumbersome and very costly
v) It is actually a rule by the elected minority drawn mainly from the elites or the wealthy who exercise power against the poor and ignorant masses
vi) In most cases elected representatives lack moral values - They win elections through corruption or just due to ignorance of the masses who don't even bother to establish the moral values they hold such as honesty
vii) Sometimes, incompetent leaders gain power due to poor decisions made by the majority voters whose reasons for electing them have no solid foundations due to mainly ignorance or corruption and bias
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