2024 US Presidential Election

[Leonardo17]

Thinking things through this morning, while it's comforting to focus on the details at hand, ultimately this is a result of the interplay between our systems of governance and human nature.  Democracy is an imperfect system.  Every few years, instead of looking to preserve what few successes we managed, we focus on the problems that remain and look for someone to blame for the way we feel.  Democracy, at least as practiced in the United States, is reactionary.  Without a more informed and wise electorate, which is a limit imposed by our nature, we likely can expect regime change after regime change after regime change.  Democracy is not an ideal system, at least not in its current form.  Could it be a good solution, with just a few tweaks here and there?  Maybe.  For now though, the problem of governance will remain for all of us.  All we can do is accept the progress we've made, and not fear and dread the reversals.  Is this the end of democracy in the U.S.?  Perhaps.  But if it is, what replaces it will be temporary as well.  Nothing lasts.  Nothing is finished.  And nothing is perfect.  The best we can do is hope for the future.

In Thea Alexander’s book 2150 AD, they have an AI that is responsible of governing the colony where the events are happening.

   Also in 2150 BC people had God-Kings with all the magical rituals that were supposed to transform the Pharaoh into some sort of channel for the universal energies to rule the country directly.
 
   Apart from that, I used to think it’s about education. But it’s not education. If it was education Brexit would never happen, the AFD would not get so positive results, France would not need to politically isolate its own far-right movement. A mad man like Javier Milei could not even dream of becoming a president (if you ask me).
 
   In the 70’s, 80’s and even the first half of the 90’s, the less satisfied layers of society (factory workers, people with low paying jobs, small scale farmers, owners of small businesses etc.) would vote for left wing parties when they were dissatisfied with the government. Today when they are impoverished because of ultra-liberal policies (I’m specifically thinking of Emmanuel Macron here) they simply go and vote for even more liberal political parties thinking that the populist guy is more likely to understand their low or middle class problems.  
 
   So there is this change of dynamics in the world of politics. And right wing parties all over the world seem to understand these dynamics better than older more traditional types of politicians.