@Summī Imperator, 呪い殿 what are you talking about?

There are all kinds of tricks and behind the scenes ways of manipulating "democracy"

Well, in a mixed government, you have inherited titles, and you have people who are voted in by the civilians.

How do you keep the power balance?

@Snakeisninja yeah, voting should really be restricted in scope. To seem as meaningless as it really is

Even if every official position is filled by someone who wants X agenda, there are unofficial positions too and those are firmly in the hands of elites

How do you force both parties to honour one another's power?

The $ for example, campaigns are financed by donors

@Summī Imperator, 呪い殿 they need delineated powers.

If the elites are desperate they can put their vast wealth to use and withdraw all funds from the candidate/official or initiate a scandal and have the official removed

That wasn't the question.

That's the point of a mixed government, each group has specific powers and responsibilities

How do you make them respect eachother.

Why do they need to respect each other?

And keep that respect.

The illusion that democracy is what it appears to be is ridiculous. It's just a cute fiction

When some titles are hereditary?

You want them to be in conflict, that way they don't get anything done

Because otherwise one group will eventually look to seize control.

Wha-

That is always happening

Look, every system has "undemocratic" authority behind it somewhere

It's an omnipresent reality of power

Somebody will be in charge either openly or behind the scenes and if people get in the way of the Elite's agenda then the elite will deal with them or be replaced by a new elite

Better to have the elites out in the open

@campodin it would be more honest

That's why I want an aristocratic class

Well we have one but it's secret

And their agenda blows

Did you watch distributists why he doesn't vote video?

That finally started black pilling me on voting

I just want voting as an opiate for the masses

Let them feel like they have some say

I mean there's no PROBLEM with voting I suppose, like if you like a candidate vote for them

But just keep it real

@campodin and I think the Distributist was very naive to think that regular people can scare politicians with letters and phone calls

Like to actually cause them to change their agenda

At best they'll hesitate a bit and reevaluate when the time to act is

Yeah, they just care to appease their base

If you aren't the targeted base, then they don't care

The agenda is decided by people above their paygrade who gave them the job