Part of me is like we’re in an oligarchy, not a democracy.
But the other part of me is like I’d rather have a communist dictator anyway because I think Americans are too far gone to make any good decisions if it was actually a democracy.
all states are class dictatorships; almost everyone the USA has called a communist dictator were subject to democratic processes within a ruling party more than politicians in their two-party bourgeois pony show are. [points at the Iowa caucus and the dem primary in general]
Most of our inability is from the wealthy having the loudest voices. Garbage in, garbage out -- if most of the info you use to vote is coming from wealthy people you'll vote for what they tell you to. Therefore bourgeois dictatorship.
If we took money out of politics completely (and I mean more than just campaign donations -- media would at a minimum have to be worker-owned cooperatives like AP, no think tanks with millions being poured into them -- essentially make it impossible for money to buy a louder voice) that would fix things and make democracy work. I don't see it happening without full socialism or something like it though. And it's tough for reformists because the first step towards fixing it would be the repeal of Citizens United v. FEC, which will require an amendment -- without that literally EVERY step we could take in that direction would be a slam dunk court case against reformists.
Part of me is like we’re in an oligarchy, not a democracy.
But the other part of me is like I’d rather have a communist dictator anyway because I think Americans are too far gone to make any good decisions if it was actually a democracy.
all states are class dictatorships; almost everyone the USA has called a communist dictator were subject to democratic processes within a ruling party more than politicians in their two-party bourgeois pony show are. [points at the Iowa caucus and the dem primary in general]
Most of our inability is from the wealthy having the loudest voices. Garbage in, garbage out -- if most of the info you use to vote is coming from wealthy people you'll vote for what they tell you to. Therefore bourgeois dictatorship.
If we took money out of politics completely (and I mean more than just campaign donations -- media would at a minimum have to be worker-owned cooperatives like AP, no think tanks with millions being poured into them -- essentially make it impossible for money to buy a louder voice) that would fix things and make democracy work. I don't see it happening without full socialism or something like it though. And it's tough for reformists because the first step towards fixing it would be the repeal of Citizens United v. FEC, which will require an amendment -- without that literally EVERY step we could take in that direction would be a slam dunk court case against reformists.