- Messages
- 5,294
- Location
- Runnoft
No Gods No Masters No Corporate Overlords
- Thread starter Garraty_47
- Start date
- Messages
- 46,985
- Location
- Down by the seashore.
Too Podcast, DL.
That being said, I love this video, your podcast title made me think of it. Music Connessior Tip, headphones, guitar amp set to 11, or house pa recommended.
- Messages
- 1,407
- Location
- Your House
A federal council is the answer.
The 2 party system completely ignores the existence of the silent majority and is often only representative of half of the nation's loud minority, IE hardline and/or politically active democrats/republicans.
We already have a congress and house that elect representatives from each state, maybe it would be worth the extra few million a year in salaries to better represent the nation's people across our cultural, economic, and geographic differences.
At the end of the day we all want to go home after a long day of work, have a couple of drinks and chill out with good family/friends.
- Messages
- 5,294
- Location
- Runnoft
Having a president or a prime minister type position isn't inherently a bad idea. It's useful for diplomacy and in a genuine emergency when there isn't time to waste waiting for a committee or a council to reach agreements having one person coordinating the response is far more efficient.
The problems start when one person is imbued with unnecessary, overbroad, perpetual, unaccountable powers. In such a system the person wielding those powers will inevitably be found to be compromised, or corrupt, or simply inept and easily manipulated.
What 'Murica has though is so much worse.
We have an empty highest office; a charade of power and responsibility. The job title of "president" (but arguably one could also include "senator", etc. as well) is merely a focal point for citizens' demands and complaints, anger and accusations. The actual planning and decision making is done by permanent state operatives for reasons and goals that nobody has explicitly condoned via the ballot box. For the most part these reasons and goals are never publicized or acknowledged at all.
We have only the illusion of a representative government and the funniest part, to me anyway, is that it's the people who aren't being represented who maintain and reinforce the illusion. I guess it's less painful than admitting one has been a dupe sired by dupes who were sired by dupes.
Self-delusion is a fine 'Murican tradition.
The problems start when one person is imbued with unnecessary, overbroad, perpetual, unaccountable powers. In such a system the person wielding those powers will inevitably be found to be compromised, or corrupt, or simply inept and easily manipulated.
What 'Murica has though is so much worse.
We have an empty highest office; a charade of power and responsibility. The job title of "president" (but arguably one could also include "senator", etc. as well) is merely a focal point for citizens' demands and complaints, anger and accusations. The actual planning and decision making is done by permanent state operatives for reasons and goals that nobody has explicitly condoned via the ballot box. For the most part these reasons and goals are never publicized or acknowledged at all.
We have only the illusion of a representative government and the funniest part, to me anyway, is that it's the people who aren't being represented who maintain and reinforce the illusion. I guess it's less painful than admitting one has been a dupe sired by dupes who were sired by dupes.
Self-delusion is a fine 'Murican tradition.
Similar threads
