America needs another round of McCarthy hearings, only this time against anyone suspected of wanting to destroy American democracy. Haul them before courts, Musk, Thiel, Yarvin, Flynn, Trump, Bannon, Vance, all those talking heads who took Russian money, and the spies who gave ot to them. They all need to be hauled before a court and tried very publicly - and sent to jail in order to fix the distrust of government.
Mate, every single politician who supports “hands off regulation” and other forms of the State (which is the thing that voters control by electing people to lead and manage it) not interfering in those things controlled by the other Power, Money, would have to be hauled before such courts.
The pro-Oligarchs (commonly known as Neoliberals) are just as much against voters controlling how Society gets managed (i.e. against Democracy) as the Fascists.
It’s just that Neoliberals want Money to be the Prime power, abover a State whose hands are tied but whose leaders are elected (thou often and as seen in the US, the only choices that voters have are a carefully preselect pool of candidates), whilst the Fascists want unelected leaders controlling the State as a Prime power, above even Money, which is indeed quite a different situation for those people with enough Money for it to amount to Power, but it’s not that much of a difference for the plebes like you and me who would are at the bottom of the pile and de facto powerless under both systems.
Ultimatelly “no voting” or “votes only control a secondary power which is not the top power of the land” are both anti-Democratic and the current problem of lack of Democracy (which I believe is the biggest problem in most of the West) predates the recent Trump & The Trumpettes’ version of anti-Democracy by at least 3 decades.
A segment of our society has a violent streak and an entirely different view of what they want democracy to look like, and they are well experienced at organizing for mob justice. Beating them at their own game while maintaining real objectivity will be difficult; not the being objective part, but actually getting the system to punish this behavior.
The problem is we have more Jan 6th “restore democracy” people than we have anti-FPTP “establish democracy” people. Trump has made bad voting reform a major part of his platform.
You’re not wrong, but the political climate will need to improve tremendously before McCarthyesque hearings can be a force for good.
America needs another round of McCarthy hearings, only this time against anyone suspected of wanting to destroy American democracy. Haul them before courts, Musk, Thiel, Yarvin, Flynn, Trump, Bannon, Vance, all those talking heads who took Russian money, and the spies who gave ot to them. They all need to be hauled before a court and tried very publicly - and sent to jail in order to fix the distrust of government.
Mate, every single politician who supports “hands off regulation” and other forms of the State (which is the thing that voters control by electing people to lead and manage it) not interfering in those things controlled by the other Power, Money, would have to be hauled before such courts.
The pro-Oligarchs (commonly known as Neoliberals) are just as much against voters controlling how Society gets managed (i.e. against Democracy) as the Fascists.
It’s just that Neoliberals want Money to be the Prime power, abover a State whose hands are tied but whose leaders are elected (thou often and as seen in the US, the only choices that voters have are a carefully preselect pool of candidates), whilst the Fascists want unelected leaders controlling the State as a Prime power, above even Money, which is indeed quite a different situation for those people with enough Money for it to amount to Power, but it’s not that much of a difference for the plebes like you and me who would are at the bottom of the pile and de facto powerless under both systems.
Ultimatelly “no voting” or “votes only control a secondary power which is not the top power of the land” are both anti-Democratic and the current problem of lack of Democracy (which I believe is the biggest problem in most of the West) predates the recent Trump & The Trumpettes’ version of anti-Democracy by at least 3 decades.
A segment of our society has a violent streak and an entirely different view of what they want democracy to look like, and they are well experienced at organizing for mob justice. Beating them at their own game while maintaining real objectivity will be difficult; not the being objective part, but actually getting the system to punish this behavior.
Damn why cant we be voting for DarkCloud today. This is the way.
The problem is we have more Jan 6th “restore democracy” people than we have anti-FPTP “establish democracy” people. Trump has made bad voting reform a major part of his platform.
You’re not wrong, but the political climate will need to improve tremendously before McCarthyesque hearings can be a force for good.