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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (55 children)

One of the features of a functioning democracy would be ranked choice voting, or something like it, right? So I'd hope we could agree that that would be a good place to start.

We have very little chance of getting that just by trying to vibe it into existence, and even if we got it it wouldn't suddenly mean that parties would cease accountability to the ultra-wealthy donors.

As for other factors, what other sort of inherent structural issues to the system do you see, other than that the people currently in those balancing positions don't agree with you?

Outside of the fact that Capitalism will always mean the interests of Capital, not people, are going to be represented, there exists no real direct line from the workplace to the region to parliament, the will of the masses is not upheld because the masses do not have democratic participation that matters outside of local elections. The entire system needs to be restructured.

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