I’m reminded of something Gandhi said: “The problem with the world is that humanity is not in its right mind.”https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/06/trump-utah-national-parks-energy-development-drilling?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1581060203 …
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The problem is that oligarchs rule the world and the people have no institutional power to fight back.
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Elections have proven a poor form of accountability. They are simply the mechanisms through which people select the ruling elite, already pre-selected by parties, which are financed by oligarchs. Electing a good leader is hope but doesn’t fix popular structural disempowerment.
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Thomas Jefferson lamented, the same as Condorcet at the other side of the Atlantic, that the US Constitution didn’t institutionalize townhall meetings as sites of popular power and self-government. As
@johncusack says, we need to redistribute political power to the common people. - 4 more replies
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