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Nothing about democracy implies morality, ethics, or lack of corruption. Its only a system of electing people and as you noted if the politicians constituents d
by voidfunc 5y ago
Nothing about democracy implies morality, ethics, or lack of corruption. Its only a system of electing people and as you noted if the politicians constituents dont care it doesn’t really matter what he or she does as it’s effectively a sanctioned activity.
- blowski 5y agoIf you want to be pedantic, then it doesn’t even imply elections. Democracy is merely the idea that the right to rule is distributed across all those who are ruled, not just some arbitrary group. Elections are a way of distributing power in this way. But what I was getting at is that is that we shouldn’t have or even try to have rules for every single thing an elected official can or can’t do. It’s not a good way of running a system of government. Elected officials should be accountable to their whole electorate. But instead, they are accountable only to their core constituency, everybody else be damned. And their constituency doesn’t care about effective government, only about absurd ideological issues they’ve been whipped into caring about by a collaborative media.