[liberationtech] Saving Democracy: Larry Diamond in SF

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> Larry Diamond as he analyzes the scope and causes of the global democratic
> recession and lays out a path toward democratic renewal at home and abroad.


"Democracy" cannot be fixed or "saved" because
its underlying principle is fundamentally a wrong.
Democracy is the happy lie forced into your skull since
birth by others who wish to maintain their rule over you,
brainwashing you into believing you have some say in your life
under them. You don't... you can't, because you didn't "vote"
for your own emancipation (or for others), those things (freedom)
are simply not options that democracy offers... you gleefully
"voted" to fuck other people over, and to subjugate yourself,
exactly as you were programmed to do. Oops.

As with all other failures, "retreat" and "recession" is
the proof evidence and natural path of such failure,
nature exposes the lie.

> authoritarian
> elected leaders
> abusing
> illiberal
> repressive

Those inherent features among exactly how democracy works.
Physical force of death by some majority upon some minority,
a particularly disgusting atrocity levied upon those that simply
wish to be left alone.
There's no explaining away or fixing that fact.
Democracy is not about freedom, it does not offer that.
Stop lying to yourselves, then easy to understand
problem with government.
And problems people having over it, and under it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppifn1vQQqA