[CamperBob2]

Hot take: what has democracy done for us lately? Besides re-electing Donald Trump?

If something can't go on forever, it will eventually stop. That applies to any system that gives stupid people the same political voice as the rest of the electorate. I mean, it seems kind of obvious, doesn't it?

[amarcheschi]

Ask yourself which class can gain something by having trump as president rather than any other democrat

(it's not the working class)

[CamperBob2]

Exactly. So why'd the "working class" vote for him?

[amarcheschi]

Because the ones owning social medias, newspapers (and whatnot) pushed heavily for it

[CamperBob2]

And why did they give up their agency to these shadowy media oligarchs...?

Answer: because they're stupid.

The ones who weren't stupid were impossible to herd to the polls, or at least a lot more difficult. As a result they were outnumbered. Any system that removes the influences you cite will leave the same stupid voters in place, ready to fall for the next con man who comes along.

The problem isn't the money. The problem is the power. I'm tired of giving stupid people so much power over my life.

[johnnyanmac]

>why did they give up their agency to these shadowy media oligarchs

decades tearing down education is paying its dues. Once again, from the people who are making you feel like democracy isn't working.

>I'm tired of giving stupid people so much power over my life.

If power is money, boomers still have a lot of power. And they leveraged politics their whole lives to benefit them (even if destruction of the younger generation is a side effect)

If power is votes, then millenials should be the bloc in charge now... but we still had worse turnout than boomers. That really says something.

[CamperBob2]

I disagree that education had any meaningful part to play. It's true that less-educated people were more inclined to vote for Trump, but it's also true that we got all the "education" about Trump between 2016 and 2020 that anyone should have needed.

You can fix ignorance with education, but you can't fix stupidity.

[johnnyanmac]

>what has democracy done for us lately? Besides re-electing Donald Trump?

You have the order backwards. This is their exact strategy; spend decades breaking government then have the breakers say "see? government is broken!". Lack of functioning democracy got us Donald Trump.

Why do you think this year they are so gung ho on trying to disenfranchise voters for a midterm? Because they know they are cooked if democracy starts to work again. If nothing else, Mamdami's 6 weeks show exactly how a "government that works for its people" can work. Let's keep pushing for that.