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When the corruption & evil of the current administration become so obvious as to be accepted narrative, there will be people selling the flaming hot take that it's an indictment of democracy. Do not buy that comemierdería.
The problem is not too much democracy, but too little.
The problem is not too much democracy, but too little.
Don't let them point at these elections & tell you that democracy doesn't work because people vote against their interests or badly or are taken in by propaganda. Remember the popular vote. Remember the voter suppression. Remember the gerrymandering.
Remember the decades spent cultivating apathy among certain voters. Remember the co-opting of the legislative process through lobbying and the commercializing of the election process through fundraising.
Remember the decades spent hollowing out public education without which democracy cannot exist in any meaningful sense. An educated public is fundamentally necessary for democracy and any move against public education is undemocratic.
Remember the undermining of public broadcasting and the oligopolizing of the information media, the eroding of journalism and the role of advertising. Democracy requires a well-informed electorate.
This mess is the result of people working directly and intentionally against democracy. Do not let them tell you that it proves democracy doesn't work.
We don't know whether democracy can work, because we've never tried it.
Maybe someday we will invent a better form of government than democracy, at which point I will happily switch allegiance. But "better", to my definition, means more inclusive, participatory, and accountable. So far democracy is the best we've got at those measures.
So we should try it.
And we should keep trying it, with all the different variants we can come up with and using new technologies and social configurations as they arise, while keeping in mind the criteria by which we are trying to make it "better".
