Geist on Nostr: Democracy is a no more just governmental structure than monarchy, both are revolts ...
Democracy is a no more just governmental structure than monarchy, both are revolts against your human rights. The idea that monarchy alone is unfair in providing its politicians tax avoidance, influence over public policy, and legal cover is easy to dismiss when you look at the last few years of american
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-Politicians enjoy ultimate influence over government, case and point you have congress persistently at its lowest approval rating of all time and yet they dont get voted out, individuals in congress enjoy even lower approval ratings, yet they still vote on bill after bill.
-Look at the obscene amounts of money our poloticians are worth, how do you make that on a relatively modest salary? Its legal for them to insider trade, just like its legal for the government to rob you or kidnap you, they have legal cover to do whatever they want to you.
-the tax code is designed to be impossible for plebians to figure out, tax breaks and credits change constantly and no one will tell you the truth unless you are paying them. While I dont think taxes are ever moral, and I think the rich are generally over taxed, the tax code is designed to grant the wealthy and politicially connected a way to dodge taxes.
These are all problems today with democracy, tomorrow the problems will be hyper inflation, endless war, and the tyanny of the mob voting to steal all your stuff and put your head on a pike. Of course, "democratic™" rarely means "democracy", it means *whatever I like and nothing I dont*; its amorphous, it changes based on the motivations of its user, there is no universifiable moral values that can be defined. There is only a vague idea about a social contract, something no one has signed, something that cannot be (re)produced, that cannot be signed, has no legal basis, and includes no instructions for what forms of aggression are, and are not permitted under it.
So, you can say monarchy is all these evil things, but its not obvious that democracy is preferable.
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-Politicians enjoy ultimate influence over government, case and point you have congress persistently at its lowest approval rating of all time and yet they dont get voted out, individuals in congress enjoy even lower approval ratings, yet they still vote on bill after bill.
-Look at the obscene amounts of money our poloticians are worth, how do you make that on a relatively modest salary? Its legal for them to insider trade, just like its legal for the government to rob you or kidnap you, they have legal cover to do whatever they want to you.
-the tax code is designed to be impossible for plebians to figure out, tax breaks and credits change constantly and no one will tell you the truth unless you are paying them. While I dont think taxes are ever moral, and I think the rich are generally over taxed, the tax code is designed to grant the wealthy and politicially connected a way to dodge taxes.
These are all problems today with democracy, tomorrow the problems will be hyper inflation, endless war, and the tyanny of the mob voting to steal all your stuff and put your head on a pike. Of course, "democratic™" rarely means "democracy", it means *whatever I like and nothing I dont*; its amorphous, it changes based on the motivations of its user, there is no universifiable moral values that can be defined. There is only a vague idea about a social contract, something no one has signed, something that cannot be (re)produced, that cannot be signed, has no legal basis, and includes no instructions for what forms of aggression are, and are not permitted under it.
So, you can say monarchy is all these evil things, but its not obvious that democracy is preferable.