• Rusty Shackleford@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    They’ve always been run by these kinds of people.

    No. Not always.

    After all, these kinds of people created “democratic/federal/republican governance” exactly for this purpose, didn’t they?

    Exclusively sociopathic people didn’t conceive of the idea of democratic/federal/republican governance, or put another way, governance with distributed authority and consent of the governed.

    I don’t know what you’re trying to say, but, all I have is a general sense of “Wtf are you talking about?”.

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      7 months ago

      No. Not always.

      I’m afraid the answer is yes. Pick any of these (alleged) “Great Men” who (supposedly) “represented” us in the past and I’ll point out how they pushed us to the disasterous conditions we are facing today.

      Exclusively sociopathic people didn’t conceive of the idea of democratic/federal/republican governance,

      Take the US as an example of how it’s (supposedly) “democratic” system of governance was designed from the ground up to be decidedly anti-democratic. If you want to see capitalists and fascists glorify this fundamental aspect of US history, click here. This should not surprise you - being anti-democratic is about as right-wing as it gets.

      The idea of democracy itself, and it’s embrace by masses of people long, long before the ancient Greeks gave it a name is not the result of this malady you speak of - but the powerful elites that co-opted it certainly was and still are.