The Ultimate Myth We Tell Ourselves About the U.S.
slate.com
“The truth is, part of our government, since the founding, has been authoritarian.”
  • Waterpumpee@lemmus.orgEnglish
    24·
    1 month ago

    Representive democracy is deprecated anyway. Its just too easy to bribe 300-600 politicians. We should have had direct democracy for 20 years.

    You could vote on bills that are important to you directly and hand everything else to your representative. Via internet you could change things on a daily basis if they start to act weird.

    For stubborn boomers, they could forfeit their voting rights for the entire legislature to their favourite influencer politician. If thats what tickles their fancy.

    Buuuut they dont want this because thats their living. And its a good one with all those bribes and market manipulation. This isnt new for trump and this is not only a conservative problem.

    • aeiou@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      Representive democracy is deprecated anyway. Its just too easy to bribe 300-600 politicians. We should have had direct democracy for 20 years.

      Yes, but as Fox News and the like has taught us it is, unfortunately, also easy to mass-manipulate ten million idiots, and people tend to react before they have facts.

  • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    I mean really JFK was when the aristocracy just got fed up with the concept and ended the charade

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
    31·
    1 month ago

    Well, we don’t get to actually vote for the judge assholes who take our rights or his orangeness’ who also takes our rights. What else?

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    1111·
    1 month ago

    Even with “No Kings” protests—the whole name of the protest is the idea that our Founding Fathers said no to monarchy, to tyrants, and threw that off. What is more accurate is that they didn’t want to be colonial subjects themselves but still wanted to be an empire. They just wanted to be the center of power of that empire.

    There it is. The rot at the core of liberalism. They didn’t want to be subjects of a king, because they wanted to be kings themselves, of their own private kingdoms with their own subjects. They owned large amounts of land, possessed incredible wealth and they owned slaves who labored for them. You know, like a king.

    This mentality is still very much alive today in liberalism. Many corporations are like the private kingdoms of men with the ambition of creating a personal empire, with all the power, control, and domination that goes along with it. And liberals don’t just tolerate this, they celebrate it. Because these wanna-be god emperors are “innovators” and “job creators,” in the minds of liberals.

    • svdasein@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 month ago

      This divisive “team” stuff needs to end. You know who really loves this garbage? Billionaires. They pay to make sure we pleebs keep doing it so we don’t notice that they’re robbing us blind. We are all on team plebian serf. The sooner we pull it together the sooner we can start fixing the issue.