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The US has always been an electoral oligarchy. It paints itself as a democratic republic to claim that it has consent of the people it governs, but the governed are given no real choices. Would you like to take a right hook or a left hook? Sorry, not getting hit wasn’t an option.
We need to start demanding our cities and states use a ranked sortition approach. Put a lottery option on a ranked voting ballot and make politicians beat the lottery if they want to claim they’re a legitimate ruling class.
I agree, but I’m not sure about one thing: it seems to me that capitalism and oligarchy will never disappear, and the only thing that can be done is to somehow contain this fascism for as long as possible, and it is unlikely that it will ever be able to put an end to it.
The US has always been an electoral oligarchy. It paints itself as a democratic republic to claim that it has consent of the people it governs, but the governed are given no real choices. Would you like to take a right hook or a left hook? Sorry, not getting hit wasn’t an option.
We need to start demanding our cities and states use a ranked sortition approach. Put a lottery option on a ranked voting ballot and make politicians beat the lottery if they want to claim they’re a legitimate ruling class.
I agree, but I’m not sure about one thing: it seems to me that capitalism and oligarchy will never disappear, and the only thing that can be done is to somehow contain this fascism for as long as possible, and it is unlikely that it will ever be able to put an end to it.