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@ LogicallyMinded
2025-05-21 03:58:59
If think the flaws of democratic systems that you point at could be corrected with better system design. For instance, the political class are indeed “renters of power” but the question is why is this allowed in the first place? It’s hard to deconstruct it because it would be up to the political class to do so while it’s in their personal interest not to do so. It’s a design flaw not an issue with the democratic philosophy.
There is a lot of innovative democratic approaches that could be tested. I think the representative democracy approach is mostly flawed because too easily corruptible/blackmailed.
Maybe we should have legislators for specific domain of expertise that would be open to those with qualified credentials that would be overseen by a general chamber composed of regular citizens wanted to be involved in the democratic process.
All participants could be randomly selected rather than elected to ensure fair representation of all opinions and prevent a corrupted media system from influencing the outcome. There wouldn’t even be a need for campaigning. No more political elections needed.
Instead of participating in electing representatives, citizens would have the power to directly revoke selected officials to mitigate blatant abuse of power.
These are just some ideas to show that the criticism of the democratic governance mostly target flaws in the design rather than the philosophy.