Ppl don’t want to win, they want someone else to win for them, which is how we got in this mess in the first place. American Democracy, in practice, encourages the notion that someone else will work on your interests, on your behalf, without requiring sustained effort on your part. We let elected official operate largely in secret and with zero oversite from those they represent, for 4 years.
Until the electorate is able and willing to sustain oversite over the actions of their elected officials, with the tools necessary to step in and influence or remove their representatives, if needed, then there is no power outside voting every 4 years.
Democracy is as strong as its voter base. Right now we have a third of people ingesting complete nonsense propaganda on purpose, a third with no media literacy and many with no actual literacy and most of those people don’t vote, and the remaining third is a split between more corporate centrists and various leftists who disagree with the centrists and may or may not agree with the rest of the left on anything at all.
A single Sociopathic Oligarch could make each of those senators rich beyond their dreams without ever even noticing a blip in their bank account. And there are a LOT of Sociopathic Oligarchs. Somebody must have tried it, and probably succeeded for the most part.
There is an entire industry dedicated to doing just that. If you really want to be disgusted, check out a book named Dark Money. It discusses just the work of the Koch’s. Maybe find a summary or cliffnotes, its eye opening.
Ppl don’t want to win, they want someone else to win for them, which is how we got in this mess in the first place. American Democracy, in practice, encourages the notion that someone else will work on your interests, on your behalf, without requiring sustained effort on your part. We let elected official operate largely in secret and with zero oversite from those they represent, for 4 years.
Until the electorate is able and willing to sustain oversite over the actions of their elected officials, with the tools necessary to step in and influence or remove their representatives, if needed, then there is no power outside voting every 4 years.
Democracy is as strong as its voter base. Right now we have a third of people ingesting complete nonsense propaganda on purpose, a third with no media literacy and many with no actual literacy and most of those people don’t vote, and the remaining third is a split between more corporate centrists and various leftists who disagree with the centrists and may or may not agree with the rest of the left on anything at all.
we dont have a democray, we set up a system where the rich only have to bribe 100 senators to get what they want.
A single Sociopathic Oligarch could make each of those senators rich beyond their dreams without ever even noticing a blip in their bank account. And there are a LOT of Sociopathic Oligarchs. Somebody must have tried it, and probably succeeded for the most part.
There is an entire industry dedicated to doing just that. If you really want to be disgusted, check out a book named Dark Money. It discusses just the work of the Koch’s. Maybe find a summary or cliffnotes, its eye opening.
Agreed, freedom aint free. I truly believe this, even if I get down voted every single time I say it.
Yeah, it ain’t, and the people are willing and able to pay for it, get to direct it.
You can replace “American Democracy” with “Electoralism”.
The electorate will always be at the whim of those in power under this type of system because that is the fundamental nature of hierarchy.