This user maintains astrict policy advising against allpersonal attacks. This user strives to maintain a policy ofneutrality on controversial issues. <ref> This user would like to see everyone usinginline citations. Please... This user lovesknowledge. This user has a keen interest inmathematics. This user is interested in thenatural sciences. This user is interested inpolitical science. This user is interested inhistory. This user is interested inUtilitarianism, the belief that a moral action is one which increases the total happiness of humanity.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Sir Winston Churchill

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Information is the currency of democracy

Thomas Jefferson

My own POV is thatliberal democracy andcapitalism overall are beneficial.

In my view, arguments for democracy includes no wars and no conflicts causing any battle deaths betweenliberal democracies (SeeNever at War andDemocratic peace theory). Littledemocide,corruption, and fewcivil wars. No liberal democracy has had a large scalefamine. More democratic nations have higher average self-reportedhappiness (SeeLiberal democracy).

In my view, arguments for capitalism includes theIndex of Economic Freedom, one way to measure the degree of capitalism in different nations. More capitalist nations have less poverty. Note that also nations with highprogressive taxation, likeSweden, can be very capitalist. See also theEase of Doing Business Index and theGlobal Competitiveness Report. Due toglobalization, poverty is rapidly declining around the world.

However, there are of course many opposing arguments and I have tried to include the views of both sides in order to achieve NPOV. I believe that the capitalist system must include policies redistributingwealth from the most wealthy, since it is easier for the already wealthy to gradually accumulate more wealth than it is for the poor to gain any wealth. Therefore, relatively highprogressive taxation,wealth tax, and/orinheritance tax.

I strongly believe in the fundamental Wikipedia policiesWikipedia:Verifiability,Wikipedia:No original research, andWikipedia:Neutral point of view.

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  The percentage of the world's population living on less than $1 per day (black line). Graph shows the years 1981-2001.
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  Life expectancy has been increasing and converging for most of the world. Sub-Saharan Africa has recently seen a decline, partly related to theAIDS epidemic. Graph shows the years 1950-2005.
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  Number of nations 1800-2003 scoring 8 or higher on thePolity IV scale, a measure of democracy. Graph shows the years 1800-2003.
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  Freedom House Country Rankings 1972-2005
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  WorldGDP/capita 1-2003 AD.
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  World map of theEase of Doing Business Index. Green nations rank higher, red nations lower. Each color represent onequartile of the ranked nations.
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  World map of the 2006-2007Global Competitiveness Index. Each color represent onequartile of the ranked nations. Green nations score higher, red nations lower. Grey nations are not ranked.
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  World map of theCorruption Perceptions Index, which measures "the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians"
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  Charts showingEconomic freedom and various other indicators.
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  Food production per person 1961-2005

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  Freedom House scores nations on political freedom.
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  Green = Happiest >Blue >Purple >Orange >Red = Least Happy;Grey = Data not available

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