• cuerdo@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The truth is dead. There is no democracy, there is no politics. Just rich people throwing bones.

    USA is just an oligopoly.

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      2 days ago

      Representative democracy is worthless anyways. It favors short term, short-sighted solutions to problems that require long term, sometimes painful corrections. But the party that implements such policies will be heavily punished as soon as the public feels that pain. So instead the public continues to vote in short-sighted but temporary joy seeking politicians.

      An epistocracy combined with a civic service model would be far better. To be able to vote you must demonstrate a baseline capability of intelligence and rational thought along with having performed civic service in some way. Otherwise you cannot vote and simply live life normally.

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        2 days ago

        Democracy is simple and instinctual, democracy has the mechanisms to solve the issues you mention, that is what the parliament is for.

        But democracy requires good faith, unity and solidarity. The oligarchies have bombarded the baseline of those three by means of the new technologies.

        I have hope thought, this conflict between the few against the majority is always there. Twitter made Obama president, Twitter made Trump president.

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          1 day ago

          It doesnt help when the people acting ingood faith, unity, and solidarity have immoral intentions. You can have a fully functioning government that is completely evil. There has to be some inherent conflict to keep us continously evaluating societys trajectory.