political musing
Obviously it's easy to say this but I've long thought that our politics,our democracy, our political class as well as our somewhat sideline status as the electorate are profoundly out of date and no longer fit for purpose.
Changing that may well mean that things will get very much worse before they even have the possibility of getting better. #politics #democracy
political musing
@emsquared the democracies that have succeeded us have been less afraid to adapt the model to avoid some of our electoral issues, like a perpetual two-party rift. In the process, they’ve created others, but at least they’re dynamic experiments that help us learn and get closer, while we’re stuck with, at most, updating the original software version because we’ve literally sanctified the Founding, imbuing it wherever feasible with divine inspiration and will.
political musing
@emsquared that being said, I mislike the accelerationist line of thought willing to throw others under the deadly bus of “things getting much worse before they get better.” Pushing for reform without violent upheaval is hard, discouraging work, but the magical thinking of those who treat rock bottom as a necessary part of a fade-to-black, ashes-forged Grand Solution represents a more subtle form of giving up. And it makes people vulnerable to Qanon-like grifts.
political musing
@AmberWavesofFlame fair point. I just think our own apathy is as much to blame (certainly in the UK) . Also I am pretty close these days to the bottom of the pile so I do have empathy for those even below me. I don't wish hardship on them but I do know that those way above me would prefer I and they suffered first.