Message from @Ethreen42
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GW was based on that issue
well I dont blame you tbh
I mean I disagree
but still
```The spirit of party serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
- George Washington```
American Democracy in its current state is a joke
I guess the US was the first modern democracy so it wasn't going to be perfect
but c'mon
```However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
- George Washington```
while a bit too federalist to my liking, overall GW was BASED
Direct Democracy is something I'm interested in
it seems like the ideal form of democracy on paper
but there hasn't really been a true Direct Democracy in modern history
no no no
not direct democracy
abolishing parties != direct democracy
I know
direct democracy is a nightmare
^^
yeah but it's quite interesting
if you just look at the history of the Greeks I think it was
you know why it aint good
yeah I'm not much of a fan of democracy in general
but it's a subject of great interest, since you know I live in one
technically
direct democracy = LA and NYC ruling over you
well on a federal level I suppose
if,
and this is a big if
if a direct democracy was created in America it would have to be on a local basis
idealy you wouldn't do it top down
that doesnt make sense
but again that creates problems
you can't top-down direct democracy
there is no top lol
I was thinking of a far more decentralized form then i assume you're thinking of
but again I dont even think it would fully work
just a good subject to think about imo
Tyranny of the Masses
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