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Vote. Or be more active in politics.
by TheChaplain 5y ago
Vote.
Or be more active in politics.
- agilob 5y agoand if that doesn't work wait 4 or 5 more years and vote again, hope for the better!
- hulitu 5y agoToo late.
- sweettea 5y agoVoting is how this mess started... how is voting harder going to fix what voting created? Nothing short of a common national ethos of trust in an almost unremovable leader can solve this problem. A leader who can listen to experts and make a choice, even if unpopular, without fear of next election and without the need to aggrandize more power and wealth.
- soco 5y agoThat's the kind of rationalization which got Europe into WW2...
- mLuby 5y ago"Fear of the next election" is one of the few things that keeps elected leaders in line. You want a wise, just dictator for life, and maybe you luck out and get one who reigns beneficently for a few decades, but who's to say their successor will be as good, or the next one, and on and on until you inevitably get a Stalin. Put another way: if the leader dies, and heir A spends all their effort on ruling effectively, and heir B spends all their effort on beating heir A to the throne, how can heir A succeed? You'd need metrics for being a good ruler which are immune to Goodhart's Law. Given that—over time—power inevitably centralizes and inevitably is abused, those tendencies must be counterbalanced; or else power must be regularly reset by more crude means.
- umanwizard 5y agoVoting is already mandatory in Australia.
- cfcfcf 5y agoVoting is mandatory and it has bi-partisan support.
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