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Even if the electoral system is rational, its still possible to make bad choices. But bad choices are a lot more likely with our system, more bad than we'd hav
by stretchwithme 16y ago
Even if the electoral system is rational, its still possible to make bad choices. But bad choices are a lot more likely with our system, more bad than we'd have in a rational system.
I don't particularly care how much government you have in Austria, but that's really none of my business. If people are unhappy with it, they can change it.
The things our government does badly do much more damage to us and to the world and we have little ability to change it.
- syllogism 16y agoYour initial criticism said "The pattern with the government is the same from situation to situation". The implications of that are very different if the root problem is that your country doesn't have a functional democracy electing that government. Instead of saying "we need smaller government in America", perhaps you ought to be arguing "we need democracy in America". That's why you ought to care how much government we have in Australia, and how much government they have in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, etc. The countries of the world form a natural experiment that provides some evidence about the effects of certain policies. This evidence points against the "big government always bad" hypothesis.