I’m with you on collective action, like unions, but I don’t really see how that applies to government. The system works whether one person votes or 1mil, and if zero of the regular non-politicians voted, the politicians still get a vote. If you’re talking about collective action to vote for someone different, there’s two main problems with that:
We can’t all agree on what issues are most important, which is part of why third parties never win.
There’s too many bad actors who would use that opportunity as an authoritarian power grab.
I think your idea could work if we had federal ranked choice, but we average people don’t “produce” anything that the government can’t produce itself. If someone wanted a communist government, they’d have to get communists elected, and to do that, they’d have to sell the idea of Communism to regular people who don’t know anything other than late-stage capitalism.
It would have to emerge organically from the ground up, not the top down. I think we’re on our way (I’m more of a socialist), but I don’t think it will happen in our lifetime, and rushing it will only scare the ignorant.
Either way, I think we’ve beaten this horse enough. You’ve been at least respectful, which is more than I can say for a lot of comments. Have a nice day.
I’m with you on collective action, like unions, but I don’t really see how that applies to government. The system works whether one person votes or 1mil, and if zero of the regular non-politicians voted, the politicians still get a vote. If you’re talking about collective action to vote for someone different, there’s two main problems with that:
We can’t all agree on what issues are most important, which is part of why third parties never win.
There’s too many bad actors who would use that opportunity as an authoritarian power grab.
I think your idea could work if we had federal ranked choice, but we average people don’t “produce” anything that the government can’t produce itself. If someone wanted a communist government, they’d have to get communists elected, and to do that, they’d have to sell the idea of Communism to regular people who don’t know anything other than late-stage capitalism.
It would have to emerge organically from the ground up, not the top down. I think we’re on our way (I’m more of a socialist), but I don’t think it will happen in our lifetime, and rushing it will only scare the ignorant.
Either way, I think we’ve beaten this horse enough. You’ve been at least respectful, which is more than I can say for a lot of comments. Have a nice day.