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In the US and the UK today we have a binary democracy without real choice. In other words, we don’t have democracy at all. We have voting ceremonies; democracy as performance art. We have democracy theatre.
@aral But aral, who but Joe biden is going to preserve the sanctity of women's rights to self determination? /s
@aral and Australia
@JohnLoader6 @aral same arse, different cheeks
Dave No One @aral @gunchleoc Depending on which of those two sides wins, even this remaining “theatre“ could be in danger. As a European I was always astonished about the political system in the US that can have a minority winning over the majority vote.
@dans_root @gunchleoc Indeed. If being alive in the last four decades has taught me anything, it’s that things can always get worse.
@aral But then again, I'm genuinely not aware of a single democracy currently or an antiquity that has ever lived up to the name
We are a roman 'democracy': a 'res publica ('state of the (rich) ppl' is mostly a PR term that was designed to give legitimacy to the Roman Senate) that decides who has more right to vote or not and weight their votes accordingly
Morphing into a timocracy like ancient Marseille where only the power people have the 'democratic' rights
@aral
the binary narrative is prefaced by the construct of choice within #capitalism
selection between two brands created by subsidiaries of a monopoly
a false dichotomy that allows wealth to build a political system of control
in the oversimplification of all things — no/yes, black/white, woman/man, gay/straight, bad/good
categorize, reduce — problem/resolution
this systemic destruction of nuance vital for extremist ideology
the fabrication of choice is the democratic guise of #fascism
What we have in both countries colloquially known as a fit-up.
A fraudulent pretense at an election in which the result is foreknown to be one of two parties, each apologists for genocide and in furious agreement that all the nation's wealth should be in private hands and all protest should be suppressed.
Frankly I'm thinking that participating in this fraud at all is just validating it.
I certainly will never vote for the parties that like support and want to continue the Potemkin pretense at democracy.
But it doesn't really matter what I do, I live in one of the least swingy constituencies so my vote never counts for anything and there's no need for the bi-party to seek my vote or approval.