In the olden times, it was a big point of pride of American politics that a lot of people didn’t want to kill the leaders. It was sort of assumed that in feudal style European politics, of course the common people kind of wanted to kill you, because you were threatening their safety and taking their stuff. In America, the way we did things was to earn the respect of the people you governed. The people actually wanted this person to be in charge. Why would I shoot that guy? That’s who we picked, we like him.
Of course there are some caveats (slavery large among them). The reality never matched up to the ideal. But we’re going back to where even the approximation of consent of the governed that we used to have, isn’t assumed anymore. Fuckin bullshit
Same. I can talk about combining Socialism, UBI, with a dash of heavily regulated capitalism that has wealth caps, and downvoters crawl out of the woodwork.
Anyhow, toss me a link to one of your most detailed posts about this attention economy thing? I can’t promise to like it, but I should see if there are bits that would fit into the “Universal Ranked Income” system that I have been tinkering with.
I’m not expert, but i’d start with ranked choice voting, campaign donations must come from a natural person and not a company, PAC, or any other organization, and term limits.
In the olden times, it was a big point of pride of American politics that a lot of people didn’t want to kill the leaders. It was sort of assumed that in feudal style European politics, of course the common people kind of wanted to kill you, because you were threatening their safety and taking their stuff. In America, the way we did things was to earn the respect of the people you governed. The people actually wanted this person to be in charge. Why would I shoot that guy? That’s who we picked, we like him.
Of course there are some caveats (slavery large among them). The reality never matched up to the ideal. But we’re going back to where even the approximation of consent of the governed that we used to have, isn’t assumed anymore. Fuckin bullshit
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Same. I can talk about combining Socialism, UBI, with a dash of heavily regulated capitalism that has wealth caps, and downvoters crawl out of the woodwork.
Anyhow, toss me a link to one of your most detailed posts about this attention economy thing? I can’t promise to like it, but I should see if there are bits that would fit into the “Universal Ranked Income” system that I have been tinkering with.
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My solution is to fix what we have. Democracy sucks, but it’s the best there is.
Fix it how? FIX IT HOW?
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Bring back the Fair doctrine or whatever it’s called and tax the shit out of the wealthy and super wealthy.
Oh yeah, universal healthcare for all. Bring back regulating major industries and start basic income.
I’m not expert, but i’d start with ranked choice voting, campaign donations must come from a natural person and not a company, PAC, or any other organization, and term limits.
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