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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I mean, ostensibly the issue that modern western democracies are facing is corruption. That corruption definitely has taken over in the past 30 years to where the grift is basically in the open and further moves toward authoritarianism are happening to solidify the scheme and close doors to the corrupt facing repercussions. Absolutely, the wealthy elites are largely to blame for this situation. Though their power doesn't just come from the financial resources they wield, but also the corruptible nature of humanity. We need to remove that lane of corruption by making the people they need to corrupt basically everyone.

We've tried taking away their means to corrupt in the past and over time they just regain it. Too many people have been brainwashed to think that letting them have that power is a good thing. Hence, we turn our own power seeking nature in upon itself and offer those very same brainwashed people more direct control over their own society. It entails risk to be sure and by no means would it be easily achievable, but it holds the benefit of being a novel idea in today's society. By being novel and by being able to appeal to the individualist beliefs of those on the right, it holds real potential if you can organize a push for it before they can adapt their means of corruption to stop it.

Again, I know it's very unlikely, but by doing the thing they don't expect to stop them, it might actually be a lot easier than fighting them head on. With it we would see the effective end of political parties and all the baggage, rhetoric and special interests that go along with them. People could return to having a nuanced set of beliefs and having agency over their lives in an ever expanding radius. It's the soft revolution that happens from within and if nobody ever called it that a majority would be none the wiser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m honestly quite surprised - this is very, very close to my view of how things should work - much closer than anyone else has come to expressing the same views as I have.

I think the only gap between us is generally the details of how it would work, but also, how we get there. For the latter, I have a few suggestions which I have shared on Lemmy before. For the former - the only real difference is I kind of don’t trust the concept of “digital” direct democracy, I’m far more inclined towards delegates representing much, much smaller groups (100-150ish people) whom can be recalled immediately. I wrote a bit about how I think it should work elsewhere.

Anyways, I think we probably have quite a bit in common, you should drop me a message so we can chat more. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sent a message on an alt, as my instance wasn't cross compatible with yours. Let me know if you get it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got it, and replied. Sorry for the delay!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So, I'm not sure feddit can message backwards to the alt because it never came through. I've tried using a different fediverse platform now that I'm hoping will work? No worries, lets keep at figuring this out.

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