Comment by coliveira
3 years ago
This is another evidence that democracy is not possible with the existence of tech billionaires. These robber barons will continue to exercise power to mold the world into their own desires, it doesn't matter what the people really want. Democracy, a concept that the West pays lip service to, cannot survive in a world dominated by multi billionaires. They need to be completely destroyed (as billionaires not as people) for democracy to survive - a concept that Americans from 100 years ago understood.
Or we just need a functional Congress that understands modern issues and can actually debate and pass legislation regulating industry.
If only people would stop acting in their own benefit and increasing in power thereby.
Checks and balances were supposed to use this greed for power in opposing parties and roles to keep this in check. It worked fairly well for a long time (as best as could be, not perfect mind you) but now we're in a bit of a hole where power comes from getting the largest number of people to react emotionally to the "opposition" which is real but also an exaggeration and intentionally misunderstood.
What are the checks and balances on demagoguery? I actually don't know.
It is not an "or". We need to do that (destroy multibillionaires) to have a functional congress that represents people.