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It's a fallacy to think (or deflection to claim) that errors could corrupt the system when even without errors, the system is inherently corrupt and riddled wit
by dao- 3y ago
It's a fallacy to think (or deflection to claim) that errors could corrupt the system when even without errors, the system is inherently corrupt and riddled with antidemocratic rules. Think gerrymandering, the fact that election day in the US isn't a national holiday, Citizens United, the joke that has become the Supreme Court, the list goes on and on. US democracy is a farce.
- nverno 3y agoI don't think any of those things you mentioned, aside from the Supreme Court, are inherently part of the 'system', and I don't think the design of the US democratic system is inherently corrupt - in fact, most of the rules in place were designed with the intent of discouraging the inevitable corruption. Individual problems can be attacked without dismantling the whole thing. Gerrymandering, especially, seems like it could have an outsized effect on the error rates of some elections.
- neuralRiot 3y agoTo me democracy is like asking a bunch of 6 year olds what they want for dinner. It’s based in the assumption that people know the candidates and vote for the policies they agree with, a bit of contemporary history can tell us how well that works.