Flippanarchy

That's why they give you just a couple of options to vote for and even then they rig the whole thing. lol

I'd argue that the system is designed or at least indifferent to a majority being uninterested in the politics that influences their daily life.

When you get to vote every 4 years on all topics at once while the choice you make is afterwards still influenced by corruption, coalition an lobbying that doesn't further interest into politics at all.

Imho: Let's abandon representatives with fixed legislation periods all together and either elect officials only if they can be removed by public vote at any time or skip the corrupt representatives completely and let the public vote on any matter individually. This way ones choice has an actual impact an people have motivation to actually get informed on specific matters.

I think many electoralists are motivated by capitalism, and that's why they hate the idea of us ruling ourselves. That's why they'd rather us play their rigged game electing a capitalist of their choosing.

this has some truth to it, but electoralism is not democracy. don't let this discourage yourself from voting or from preferring democracy over a dictatorship or so.

democracy is not for comoensating voters being stupid. they can be, but their intelligence is completely disregarded for the systems existence. it's about being able to swap out the person in charge without a murderous power struggle.

there's a lot of competition for being in charge and traditionally this meant whoever was able to violently subdue their enemies first got to be in charge and had to constantly, violently suppress opposition.

this was obviously horrible and only happens in democracies when someone tries to change them back into a more athoritarian regime and it's time for the people to rise and fight to protect their freedom.

I always thought of it as more of an efficiency thing. Perhaps a bad analogy, but let's say I have a few hundred photos I took on vacation. Yes, I could store them all together in a single batch. However, grouping them with some kind of predetermined taxonomy can help make sense of things through the noise. In a similar fashion, elected officials, imperfect though they may be, consolidate the voices of many into the voices of a few. At a certain scale and across certain distances it does make sense.

I think it was somewhere here in Lemmy, but I saw a proposal of randomized government appointments akin to jury duty which I found quite fun. Good way to make sure the populace is smart because any of them may be called up.

TBF current rulers aren't even real rulers.
Like, are they 6ft? 6ft2in??? Like, there's absolutely no indication of their lengths.

Politicians are absolutely useless for measuring things with, and it shows.

Some people are good rulers. Some are really bad. With the fucked up system we have, we tend to get the bad rulers because they crave power. The good leaders don't and won't make it as far, as the competition is willing to do whatever is needed to gain power. That's why this system needs to go. If we want a system with leaders, we need to hold them accountable for lies, corruption, mistakes, etc. A leader should need to pass tests of intelligence and clean a clean past. But most importantly, a psychological test.

But since bad people will always play dirty to gain power, it's best to ditch the entire system and leaders all together.

Aah the misconception about democracy.

People think that democracy is fantastic, just vote for what you want and it will be given.

Nothing is further from the truth.

Democracy has one and only one specificity that puts them over the others, it's that you can kick a bad leader out (without bloodshed).

That's it!

Now before our american friends tells me I'm wrong, you have to have a functional democracy, which you don't.

Personally it's literally the only thing that, IMO, is missing from anarchism (are there anarchist systems with strict voting rules?). But that's just my personal view of course.

Imagine not living in a monarchy.

lol

lmao even

clearly we need a hot goth robot mommy to enact robot rule over all life

We need a ruler because humans are too stupid to rule themselves

Looks inside

The ruler is also a human

I don't think there is a system that is fully stupid resistant. Some are more stupid resistant than others, but it isn't a coincidence that the more democratic a country is, the "smarter" it is.

For example, Russia invading Ukraine, very stupid idea. Or consider that the more authortarian/undemocratic america has become the more it is unreasonable/psychotic.

An exception to this would be china imo.

If people are wise enough to rule themselves, they must be picking the right rulers already!