President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.” They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges.
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yeah elections have been proven to be tremendously successful in getting great politicians into office! /s
Just skip the repeated failures to reform these doomed institutions and abolish all of this shit
Lol I wish we could have one centralized authority that would unilaterally make all of the decisions for us. I think the executive branch would be the best place to start, and instead of voting, we can just let the current guy decide what he feels best.
here's a crazy idea but what if nobody is in charge and we all just collectively decide what we want through a system of consensus?
That's what voting is.
It's the closest we can have to a fair shot at it.
nah it's not, we can do better, don't settle for abusive relationships!
I mean, there's plenty I'd change with our voting system and even who we vote on and the power they can hold, but voting is non-negotiable. Are you saying there's a different form of consensus than voting?
Consensus decision making is different from democratic voting, yes, but the process is more democratic than simply voting.
As far as I am concerned, representative democracy has been tested and failed spectacularly.
We need something else, for sure.
I'm all ears on a new system, even aside from representative democracy, but there are problems with just putting all things to a popular vote as well.
I think we're talking about the same thing just using different words, care to elaborate?
yep, popular vote is just dictatorship of the majority, so that's pretty much a non-starter, too
i hope you don't mind too much if I just drop a wikipedia link - sorry, I should be sleeping rn. check out the consensus based decision making article for more details on how it kinda works.