| I have to agree that the question on democracy should be changed or taken out. You can believe that no government is better than any form of government, while still believing that democracy is a better form of government than the rest, even though it's still worse than anarchy.
Also, you can disagree with the quote and think that socialism, fascism, communism, democratic republicanism, constitutional republicanism, etc. is the best form of government, while not being an anarchist, and having anyone who dislikes democracy get a point towards their anarchy score while they may in fact be far more statist and authoritarian than some people who prefer democracy over other forms of government.
If you put up a poll asking which forms of government people would like or dislike, an anarchist would put "dislike" for all of them, but even most statists and authoritarians would only put "like" by the few forms of government they most want.
If you went into the 'hood and asked people which gangs they'd like to have operating in their neighborhood, gang members will only like having one more gang in their neighborhood than people who don't want any gangs at all (ie. the gang members will want their own gang running things, but not anyone else's). Asking questions about which specific gangs people would like to see, or which particular form of government they'd like to see, still doesn't get you any closer to figuring out whether or not they'd like to see any at all. By using that question, you make extreme statists sound anarchistic because they'd like a form of government other than democracy, when in actuality they're more anti-anarchy than most supporters of democracy. |