Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoA successful form of democracy is Swiss style direct democracy. They also have a parliament and political parties, but public votes on all kinds of things happen very regular and are binding.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 6 days ago
I feel like a necessary prerequisite for that is a public which is well-informed and well-educated enough that they will make good decisions. As it is now, that would be more or less like Twitch Plays Geopolitics with about the same successful results.
Idk, maybe it would be a good thing in the long run, if people got the controls and fucked everything up every day for a couple of years, and then realized that this is real life and understanding what’s going on and acting on it is a necessary and good thing to do.
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
The public has other things to do than read about politics all the time. Most people only care about it, once it affects them. Even today those news junkies and activists who follow politics closely aren’t necessarily knowledgeable or well informed.