NeilBru

Again, My question to you is if not democracy, then what? Or do you actually want democracy? Please propose your alternative to democracy, given your claim about its purpose in “keeping capitalists in power”.

Her “true self” has never hid.

It’s been an endless stream of reports of scandal and cruelty since 2016 1980. How could you not get desensitized? The alternative would be to go insane.

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future, this is the definition of liberalism:

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.

In your own words, what do you think “lib” means?

I honestly think that if a personal, knowable, and forgiving god exists as the god-botherers say they believe in, then he/she would get down with some Slayer and chuckle at the irony of listening to such music.

Why can’t a god have a sense of humor?

What you’ve listed are critiques. I agree with many of them. What I’m asking specifically is if not democracy, then what instead?

On paper, the United States is a federal republic, that votes for representatives for a bicameral parliamentary system that derives jurisprudence from English Common Law.

In practice, it’s a plutocratic oligarchy.

For context, I consider myself to be a market socialist who still wants a representative federal republic for the United States.

I have my own ideas for re-enfranchisement for the working class:

• abolish “first-past-the-post”
• restructure gerrymandered voting districts
• implement ranked choice voting
• constitutional amendment for term limits for every elected position
• allow cross-party voting in primaries
• abolishing Citizens United (what a cynically ironic name for what it actually allows for)

These points are only achievable by voting for candidates who advocate for such policies which is admittedly a long shot, given the average citizen’s knowledge of civics, political theory, economics, and statistics but it’s what I believe can work.

Or would you prefer autocracy? The “dictatorship of the proletariat”? Monarchy? Theocracy? Anarchy? Oligarchy? Syndicalism?

My ultimate point is that you seem to still want “democracy”, but you want it in practice, not just on paper, despite your claim of the point of democracies is to “keep capitalists in power”.

So instead of democracy, then what, in your opinion?

If it meant my testicle for un-gerrymandering the voting districts, ranked-choice voting, and abolishing “first-past-the-post”, you can call me the one nut wonder, brother.

That, I heartily agree with and have been harping about it since I was old enough to understand how fucked we as ordinary people are.