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We also live in an era of career politicians. Previously proven business and societal success was leveraged politically in campaigns by candidates becoming poli
by olivermarks 5y ago
We also live in an era of career politicians. Previously proven business and societal success was leveraged politically in campaigns by candidates becoming politicians.
Today we only have choices of mckinsey/academic/media/think tank generic empty suits to vote for. This is true all over the western world.
Example: DNC's chosen one Buttigieg cargo culting being a politician:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-buttigieg-barack-obama-plagiarism-tweet-speech-2020-election-us-a9356466.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
I'm a registered Democrat FWIW in case this triggers someone
- lazyeye 5y agoSometimes I think democracy is like the human body. As it ages it becomes more frail and riddled with disease.
- olivermarks 5y agoI've been reading 'Brave New World revisited' by Huxley..: 'Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial—but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.' https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/huxleya-bravenewworldrevisited/huxleya-bravenewworldrevisited-00-h.html https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/huxleya-bravenewworldrevisited/h...