Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done

• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Voting is a good system. The alternative is “let’s just have a fight with guns, or with money, or connections to powerful people, every time there’s a disagreement.”

  Show me how this is not a dichotomy. Why are these the only options?

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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Discussing why not having voting invites other methods of deciding power struggles that are even less democratic, does not mean a false dichotomy

      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.

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      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tell you what: Tell me more about the other democratic alternatives you say I am missing. I didn’t think that my examples at all presupposed the existence of a parliamentary democracy, but if I know more about your counterexamples, I can better make sense of whether or not I overlooked them.

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