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Democracy has been bastardized over the past 150+ years to the extent that governments are now effectively nothing more than organized criminal organizations.
by AC__ 11y ago
Democracy has been bastardized over the past 150+ years to the extent that governments are now effectively nothing more than organized criminal organizations. Police serve as the enforcing arm of these organizations.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoInsofar as representative democracy is concerned, it has always fundamentally incurred the inefficiencies caused by the principal-agent problem and diseconomies of scale. This might have been a reasonable trade-off before the advent of modern communication infrastructure, but the model is highly anachronistic by now. The fact that electoral districts operate under a majoritarian basis ensuring party dichotomy per Duverger's law then only makes the case even worse.
- Kristine1975 11y agoIn the US 150+ years ago democracy meant "rule of white men." I'd say it has improved in that regard.