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How? In my town, there was nearly universal support for reducing police budgets among citizens. The budget went up by millions. How, concretely, should I use
by woofie11 6y ago
How?
In my town, there was nearly universal support for reducing police budgets among citizens. The budget went up by millions.
How, concretely, should I use democracy to address that?
Not the idealized model of democracy where laws that the majority of citizens want get passed, and where if everyone wishes for a law hard enough it happens, but the reality of democracy, where eyeballs cost millions of dollars, and politicians need money and voting blocks to stay in power.
- Bostonian 6y agoElect politicians who will cut police budgets, if that is your goal. Impatience is not an excuse for rioting.
- woofie11 6y agoImpatience wasn't the excuse. People are plenty patient. Game theory and organizational dynamics are more of an excuse. It turns out democracies don't work like that. I'd recommend The Dictator's Handbook to understand why that won't work, but you don't seem like the sort to read books. Rules for Rulers is a nice summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
- Bostonian 6y ago"you don't seem like the sort to read books". That's obnoxious, and you know it. I have hundreds of books that I have read in my home, although they probably overlap little with your collection.
- woofie11 6y agoYou'd be surprised just at how much overlap there might be. I'm a parent, and I still have a nice collection of board books left over from toddlerhood. Obnoxious is injecting 3-word snide comments when people want to have serious discussions about governance and corruption. If you have something serious to say, please contribute. I'm serious about that -- different points of view are good. If you don't have something to contribute, and you just want to make a douche of yourself, you can expect people to respond in kind.