A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 months agoThe paradox of electoralismlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square45linkfedilinkarrow-up1244arrow-down124
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minus-squaredansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·5 months agoThats not democracy. Democracy is rule by the people. You mean ‘electoral representative democracy’ which you describe accurately. Other kinds do exist. Not that any of thrm are allowed or americans believe they exist.
minus-squarenimpnin@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoWe should go back to sortition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
minus-squareA404@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoBut what if someone with bad intentions gets choosen?
minus-squarenimpnin@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoOne person does not make decisions, that one person would need to convince everybody else who got selected.
minus-squarewhiskers165 [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoYou say it’s not democracy in one breathe and then in the next you say it’s “[adjective] [adjective] democracy” which makes it sound a lot like it actually is democracy
minus-squaredansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoCalled thqt, not the rhing in practice.
Thats not democracy. Democracy is rule by the people.
You mean ‘electoral representative democracy’ which you describe accurately. Other kinds do exist.
Not that any of thrm are allowed or americans believe they exist.
We should go back to sortition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
But what if someone with bad intentions gets choosen?
One person does not make decisions, that one person would need to convince everybody else who got selected.
You say it’s not democracy in one breathe and then in the next you say it’s “[adjective] [adjective] democracy” which makes it sound a lot like it actually is democracy
Called thqt, not the rhing in practice.