The difference is that this dictatorship is volunt...
Anonymous ยท 2006-03-02T17:11:00
The difference is that this dictatorship is voluntary. We could shake it off anytime, if we felt like it. Apparently, we don't feel like it.
That's the narrow definition of "democracy", of course - majority rule - rather than the broader one, where democracy is assumed to include inalienable individual rights, minority protections, etc.
Perhaps the power to change the government will be gradually eased out of our hands - advanced gerrymandering is a little of that, but it can only go so far - or perhaps they won't bother.
What scares me is what exactly "voluntary" means when we are so easily manipulated. Some combination of a disrespect for wisdom - an ideology that says all detailed thinking is corrupt, and only emotions are pure - and a huge class of expert professional opinion-creators make "the will of the people" a terribly malleable thing.
The difference is that this dictatorship is volunt...
Anonymous ยท 2006-03-02T17:11:00
The difference is that this dictatorship is voluntary. We could shake it off anytime, if we felt like it. Apparently, we don't feel like it.That's the narrow definition of "democracy", of course - majority rule - rather than the broader one, where democracy is assumed to include inalienable individual rights, minority protections, etc.
Perhaps the power to change the government will be gradually eased out of our hands - advanced gerrymandering is a little of that, but it can only go so far - or perhaps they won't bother.
What scares me is what exactly "voluntary" means when we are so easily manipulated. Some combination of a disrespect for wisdom - an ideology that says all detailed thinking is corrupt, and only emotions are pure - and a huge class of expert professional opinion-creators make "the will of the people" a terribly malleable thing.
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