“Small comic based on the amazing words of Ursula K. Le Guin”.

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  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    You’ve described liberal democracy. The combination of individual freedom plus democracy is supposed to provide a framework for curating precisely the kind of political agency you describe.

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      4 months ago

      They’ve described the opposite. A collective, grassroots, democratic institution in which people can freely discuss their thoughts and political opinions and direct the policy of their country in that way, is less reminiscent of top-down political parties with representatives voted every 4 years as in liberal democracy, and more reminiscent of worker democracy or direct democracy as anarchists or communists defend.

      • snooggums@midwest.social
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        4 months ago

        They described democracy as implemented through parliaments.

        You are describing the US implementation’s flaws.