Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 5 days agoI think you’re opening up a false dichotomy here: it’s not about voting vs. the law of the fist. It’s about how the democratic systems are set up to keep the powerful in power.
The system is set up to promote those “absolutely craven, useless, and corrupt class of full-time political operatives who generally don’t give a shit about the people”. And “fixing” the media to not promote those things is like trying to teach a cat not to hunt mice.
There are more ways to have a democratic stucture of politics than “we decide onsour ruler every four years”.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 days ago
“We need both” “It doesn’t have to be either or”
“I think you’re opening up a false dichotomy here”
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Show me how this is not a dichotomy. Why are these the only options?
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 days ago
Discussing why not having voting invites other methods of deciding power struggles that are even less democratic, does not mean a false dichotomy. I am very clearly discussing why both voting and also using other means of people power, together, is the way.
What do you think is my main argument? If not that both together are the way?
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Yes it is. It presupposes that parliamentary democracy is the only way of democratic governance.
You are literally demonstrating the effect of the media landscape that you’re criticizing: you’re acting like there’s no other democratic alternative than a parliamentary democracy.