How would people not lose faith in a perverted form of democracy, where pretty much all you can vote for are different collections of lying self serving bastards employed by the ultra rich in order to fuck over ordinary people for their profits?
That’s bullshit. There are plenty non-corrupt parties on the ballot. It’s just that voters willingly vote for the “collections of lying self serving bastards employed by the ultra rich”. Turns out you can’t vote for murdering migrants at the border without getting morally bankrupt bastards in the government.
They start out non corrupt due to lack of opportunity. As soon as they gain power, they will become increasingly corrupted. The nature of politics strongly favours ruthless careerists, and in the end that leads to the large and powerful parties mostly consisting of people who would sell their own grandmother for personal profit.
I don’t buy that they are “willing” anymore. I’ve been lied to and betrayed by far too many politicians on every governmental level, and from all kinds of different parties, and as long as they face exactly zero consequences for essentially defrauding their voters, this won’t change.
Well, as long as voters think they’re all the same (and thus they might as well not vote, or vote for the ones who’ve actually done the lying), then yes, they will have zero consequences.
How would people not lose faith in a perverted form of democracy, where pretty much all you can vote for are different collections of lying self serving bastards employed by the ultra rich in order to fuck over ordinary people for their profits?
That’s bullshit. There are plenty non-corrupt parties on the ballot. It’s just that voters willingly vote for the “collections of lying self serving bastards employed by the ultra rich”. Turns out you can’t vote for murdering migrants at the border without getting morally bankrupt bastards in the government.
They start out non corrupt due to lack of opportunity. As soon as they gain power, they will become increasingly corrupted. The nature of politics strongly favours ruthless careerists, and in the end that leads to the large and powerful parties mostly consisting of people who would sell their own grandmother for personal profit.
This is unnecessary doomerism IMO. There are plenty of parties and politicians out there willing to make a difference.
I don’t buy that they are “willing” anymore. I’ve been lied to and betrayed by far too many politicians on every governmental level, and from all kinds of different parties, and as long as they face exactly zero consequences for essentially defrauding their voters, this won’t change.
Well, as long as voters think they’re all the same (and thus they might as well not vote, or vote for the ones who’ve actually done the lying), then yes, they will have zero consequences.
Do you see chances of creating a new APO?
Look where the 1968 APO ended up. They got corrupted by the time they were able to occupy powerful positions.
You mean the ones that left the APO and went on the march through the institutions?
The 1960s’ APO was surprisingly small. I guess we’d need something bigger anyway.
Usually in the wrong direction.
In my country, which is part of the Europe, the only decent parties, in my view, do <1% of the vote…
A swiss-like system would be a good start, with a more direct, horizontal democracy, but basically nobody advocates for it.
Which is why people want the return of authocracy, where the self serving bastards no longer have to even try.
The 1% needs to hang, that’s the only way to ensure the wellbeing of a common man.