I think many electoralists are motivated by capitalism, and that’s why they hate the idea of us ruling ourselves. That’s why they’d rather us play their rigged game electing a capitalist of their choosing.
I’d argue that the system is designed or at least indifferent to a majority being uninterested in the politics that influences their daily life.
When you get to vote every 4 years on all topics at once while the choice you make is afterwards still influenced by corruption, coalition an lobbying that doesn’t further interest into politics at all.
Imho: Let’s abandon representatives with fixed legislation periods all together and either elect officials only if they can be removed by public vote at any time or skip the corrupt representatives completely and let the public vote on any matter individually. This way ones choice has an actual impact an people have motivation to actually get informed on specific matters.
I’d argue that the system is designed or at least indifferent to a majority being uninterested in the politics that influences their daily life.
I would concur and that it’s deliberately built into the system that people think politics is something that can be isolated/compartmentalised and not thought about at all, if so desired.
To enfranchise the electorate, education has to begin early on that politics is the power dynamic in every single relationship, including those individuals have with each other, systems such as government, and inanimate objects such as money, food, sex, etc.
They can be educated about what decisions each party made, is making and is promising to make.
Then based upon that, weigh the pros and cons, and pick whatever they want to live with.
There are 2 terminal problems with that:
- You cant actually live how you want to in most cases because there are other people that should vote in their own favor.
- Nobody has time and willpower after a stressfull work day to indulge into politics, because it is not apart of our culture these days, to fully care about that which controls our lives: politics, politicians and mafia.
I have a solution to this, but you probably dont want to hear it.
I have a solution to this, but you probably dont want to hear it.
You are in an anarchist community, you are allowed to voice radical opinions.
Right.
Clans.
Imagine countries, but youre free to move to whichever clan you wanna live with, because every clan has their own rules.
These days every country has more-less the same laws so there is no choice of life, really.
And the choice should be close to you, so its feasable so you can actually move there.
This can only be achieved if the clans are smaller and bigger in numbers aka more often and not too far from every person, ideally.
So a world where, lets say, anarchist, liberal and fascist “clans” coexist peacefully, freedom of movement is guaranteed and supported by all those clans and information regarding all existing clans are available freely so people can make informed decisions?
While not quite exactly, the situation you’re describing isn’t too far off from some of the ways people have lived historically. I 10/10 recommend reading The Dawn of Everything if you’re interested. Some of that research really changed my thoughts about what is possible.
