(Yesterday at 12:34 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(Yesterday at 12:29 am)Ravenshire Wrote: I think the shambling corpse of our remaining democracy is about to stumble into the wood chipper. What comes out the other end in four (or more) years won't be pretty. The remains will not be something on which to rebuild, but should be buried and something new, and hopefully better, erected in it's place. Something with more, perhaps even mandatory, involvement of it's citizens. Not just hiring (electing) people to represent us, but the ability to fire (recall) them as well. The entrenchment of power has been the downfall of our democracy. It will not be a time to reverse course, back to what we once knew, but to forge onward from the ashes to build something else, something better...
Something where the types of naked power grabs we're watching now are much, much, much more difficult to attain than in our current system.
I think that's awfully optimistic. After all, this government is one voted in by the citizens.
I don't know where the optimism comes from, since I was in a rather dark, pessimistic head space at the time.
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