Democracy isn't Sustainable
Posted: Wed 11 Sep 2019, 21:46:21
I'd say this article summarizes my viewpoint as I've become quite a misanthropist of late. We get the government we deserve.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... acy-228045
What this article fails to do is indict both sides of the political spectrum. The left has its own tribal and outrage-driven machine as well. It just tends to hide itself in the guise of social-justice and decorated with pseudo-intellectual language. But a democracy requires a certain amount of substantive deliberation, i.e. true debate, which most are incapable of. This is why we kind of need to be run by technocrats like the founding fathers who, although deeply divided on issues like state vs. federal power, were at least all deep thinkers (certainly by today's standards). But the system at present doesn't filter for those qualities, although you could argue Obama was a Gorbachev-like mediator who came around a little too late to stop the tide of polarization that started picking up stream during the GW Bush regime.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... acy-228045
What this article fails to do is indict both sides of the political spectrum. The left has its own tribal and outrage-driven machine as well. It just tends to hide itself in the guise of social-justice and decorated with pseudo-intellectual language. But a democracy requires a certain amount of substantive deliberation, i.e. true debate, which most are incapable of. This is why we kind of need to be run by technocrats like the founding fathers who, although deeply divided on issues like state vs. federal power, were at least all deep thinkers (certainly by today's standards). But the system at present doesn't filter for those qualities, although you could argue Obama was a Gorbachev-like mediator who came around a little too late to stop the tide of polarization that started picking up stream during the GW Bush regime.