• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Or do you actually want democracy?

    I want good policy.

    If my democracy is producing bad candidates and bad policies, what purpose does it serve?

    your alternative to democracy, given your claim about its purpose in “keeping capitalists in power”.

    Capitalism is serviced by the illusion of choice in a functional monopoly. The solution is to break up the monopoly.

    But that’s a Herculean task.

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      7 days ago

      You can’t get good policy without democracy because democracy is part of all good policy. Non-democracy violates inalienable rights, which makes it inherently bad policy

      @politicalmemes

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        You can’t get good policy without democracy

        Put two policies on a coin and flip it. Half the time you’ll get good policy. No democracy required.

        Democracy grants input from a broad base of social perspective. But if that persective is polluted by propaganda and haunted by historical bigotry, you’ll get out what you put in.

        An apartheid democracy is less preferable than revolutionary anarchy, even if you didn’t all get to line up at a voting booth and decide to overthrow the corrupt establishment

        Non-democracy violates inalienable rights

        If you can consistently violate a set of rights, they aren’t inalienable. Pretending social obligations and taboos are written into the stars is what gets us some of the more destructive social impulses (abortion clinic bombings, white power marches, etc).