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The Democracy vs the representative Republicanism are irrelevant. What matters is that we have a massive unelected bureaucracy that is its own ulta-powerful br
by crusso 13y ago
The Democracy vs the representative Republicanism are irrelevant.
What matters is that we have a massive unelected bureaucracy that is its own ulta-powerful branch of the government that sucks money and makes its own laws.
- loup-vaillant 13y agoWell, actual democracy does start by writing a constitution¹ by mostly randomly selected people who will forbid themselves to exert any meaningful further influence on the system. That should address the bureaucracy problem. [1]: I mean a constitution, not a set of super-laws such as the Bill of Rights. Something that state how political institutions should operate (Executive, legislative, judiciary, monetary, and the media).
- crusso 13y agoWell, we don't have as complete a constitution as you specified, but I think we've pretty much proven that a constitution doesn't just enforce itself. It's like introducing a constitution and elections to Afghanistan. They don't mean anything without the culture or "civil society" to back them up.