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[Rand Strauss]

> The Great Scam known as Democracy... its trick, lure, fraud, and forever unfixable...

Democracy isn’t a scam. So far, it’s a theory and a myth.
We don’t have a democracy.  Humanity has never had a true representative democracy of any large number of people.
And the US political system is less democratic than most.

In a true democracy, the people have power.  For that to happen in a representative democracy, the representatives must be accountable to the people. Very, very few people know what accountability is, so it’s not surprising that most don’t realize it’s missing.

Ever since the founding of the US, many have had an idea about accountability. Democracy works pretty well when representatives and voters believe representatives are accountable and when they make efforts to be accountable, even though at best they deliver very little accountability. Without accountability, democracy becomes increasingly unstable, and representatives are increasingly accountable to others, to ideologies, to the wealthy and to the parties. This fake-democracy is where we find ourselves today.

"Political Science" isn’t really a science.  It tries to study the political organizations that exist, but with the myth that it’s somewhat representative of what’s possible.  It’s not.  When sciences are fruitful at all, they give rise to engineering disciplines.  This hasn’t happened with politics.  Political Science is in its infancy, like medicine was 200 years ago.  The "engineers" are charlatans, brandishing snake-oil such as marketing slogans and advertising campaigns. At best, they’re pollsters, pretending that the fast answers of surprised, non-responsible people to much-too simplistic questions are indicative of people’s desires.

Much more is possible.  Plus, the political system can be pretty easily fixed.  But most people are deeply resigned— usually much more than they realize— and would rather complain about their supposed insights into the most shallow observations of the system’s problems than peer into its depths where the clues to real solutions lie.

The claim that it’s "unfixable" is simply more shallow, cynical guessing.  If you think a problem isn’t fixable, it mostly tells you that you haven’t thought deeply enough.  It’s probably also true that you’re thinking "inside the box," in the terms the status quo uses to ensure it’s continuation.  Try getting outside the box.

For instance, try thinking:
Political campaigns are expensive because they use inefficient communication.
Representatives continually push messages to voters, which doesn’t work. What happens if you reverse this paradigm?
What’s a rigorous definition of accountability?
What’s a rigorous functional definition?
Many voters are apathetic and ignorant because caring and learning result in frustration.
The media market doesn’t offer good, concise information because people don’t need it.
The shape of our whole political system- voters, elections, voter registration, campaigns, polls, media, parties, incumbents, representation, congress and the presidency- not the fact that we have these, but their separate and combined shapes and organizations are a perfect fit for the results we have, the lying, the corruption, the lack of competition, all of it
What effects the shape of things most is its foundation.  When a system is so broadly broken, you’re not going to get very far fixing the symptoms or complaining about the effects.  Yes, this "car" goes 1 mile an hour tops and guzzles tons of gas.  Instead of complaining, you need to look under and behind all of it to find the true cause or causes.  A "true" cause is one that a true solution can be applied to.

Get to the bottom of all of these, and a new possibility emerges.  But you’re not going to get there from an hour or two of thinking, much less the ten minutes you’ll take reading this.  Talking to people, it takes a good 2-15 hours to reveal what’s hidden behind these statements.

-r


> On Jan 7, 2020, at 12:48 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The Great Scam known as Democracy... its trick, lure, fraud,
> and forever unfixable failure... abuses "voting" to wage immoral
> force up to and including death against others.
> 
> Some of the truths democracy does not want you to know and liberate...
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wclLGlSWwYI
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbekNG6Azq4
> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7342aa7b328abec8c5f54fc84907b90b3944c9f8&dn=The_Most_Dangerous_Superstition
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b70TUbdfs
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy8S2xOKiwY
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