Elections Are Bad For Democracy, opines the repellent NYT in a witty, Ivy League, condescending, smug, mendacious Op Ed. Perhaps that's harsh, the author argues that our current system encourages narcissistic power-heads to seek office. Why? So they can get rich off having power over you. Here's a concluding snapshot, Adam Grant's arguing for an Athenian lottery viz. electors:
A lottery would give a fair shot to people who aren’t tall enough or male enough to win. It would also open the door to people who aren’t connected or wealthy enough to run. Our broken campaign finance system lets the rich and powerful buy their way into races while preventing people without money or influence from getting on the ballot. They’re probably better candidates: Research suggests that on average, people who grow up in low-income families tend to be more effective leaders and less likely to cheat — they’re less prone to narcissism and entitlement.
Fair play, our governance is clearly broken, so let's get rid of Dominion, yes, they call themselves that, voting machines and do it all by chance and draw. Would things be better or worse? Hardly either which way, the same unelected satrapy being in control of the vast organism that is the secular super state.
Regardless, the optics are telling, don't you think, and how many of you are going to vote in the next totally free and fair election?
LSP
10 comments:
I'm hoping that the Ho runs and that I can curry favor with her. Maybe I can get appointed to something (a no-show job) that just dips cash out of the public trough and drops it into my pocket. That is the promise of The Party.
Elections may be bad for Democracy but they are imperative for a Constitutional Republic (which [used to] place the power with the states and its citizens).
The constant illiterate use of "Our Democracy" shows the serious lack of proper education by far too many Americans.
As far as Dominion is concerned...thievery and cheatery is what that is in the hands of the thieves and cheats.
I don't know what the NYT is complaining about; what actually happens is that Wall Street and the Deep State choose two candidates; the Madison Avenue shylocks and the Corporate Media groom them and then on election night the Oligarchs sit back in their palaces and put bets on which one wins. It's practically a lottery already, except that it's rigged as to who gets chosen. The Oligarchs keep their power and positions regardless, elections are just a sport they engage in to keep the people's attention focused away from them.
"The constant illiterate use of "Our Democracy" " is a feature, not a defect.....
Mr. LL, I see you as a "consultant."
10% to the Church, we won't call it blood money.
I know, Paul, and right on.
What a den of thieves we appear to have found ourselves in.
Can we vote our way out? Errrrr...
Nailed it, NW.
Wild, wisdom!
But right on. Are you even watching the, hiccup, primaries?
No sir, I am not watching the alleged primaries, nor the alleged debates. I'm highly allergic to anything that includes Asa Hutchinson.
Quite right too, Mr. Wild.
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