Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

Ready to get fucked up? Adam Smith consider rent theft and hated the idea.

maybe naive, but I kind of imagine that a lot of enlightenment folks would've come to different beliefs after seeing how liberalism ultimately failed to fully realize their stated ideals. this was pretty much Marx's basis for Marxism.

I mean. America is working exactly as intended. A small few really hold all the power. It's why it's a republic not a democracy. If anything I think they'd be more inclined to go harder on liberalism. It's not like they didn't know about Rome or Athens and their failures.

republicanism is a technical implementation of a democratic society, which we *arguably* had in 1787 but *certainly do not* now. while the little-r republican delegation of power is the avenue of exploitation, it is not inherently the failure of our society

as trumpism has shown, direct democracy is just as susceptible to the same attacks as a republican structure, because both rely on a liberated, educated, and well-linked civil populace. it is the corruption of our society, and destruction of our economy, that festers fascism

People have a lot more stake and avenues for change in local and state governments. So many people would be better off if states had the power to provide financial relief during the pandemic, but only the feds can "just run a deficit"

remember when greece went bankrupt within the EU and that was widely (and not incorrectly) hailed as a condemnation of the cession of sovereign mints to a larger, more distant, central bank that can choose whether or not to grant a principality money ha ha ha

I'm not even arguing that states should have the ability to issue currency. But they should have the ability to intentionally borrow money to cover a deficit