Comment by Eddy_Viscosity2
1 day ago
Western democracies have fair and competitive elections in the same way they have fair and competitive markets for things like internet access or mobile phones. You are effectively only allowed to choose between a very carefully managed set of choice that are provided to you. This set of choices is often so dire and distant from people's actual desires that many just don't bother voting at all.
George Carlin used the analogy of restaurant to modern democracy. You have the appearance of choice because you are handed a menu where you can choose liberal or conversative or green party, etc. But all of the actual policies and laws are drawn up by the same chefs in the back and you eat what you are served.
This is my point. You need to identify the source of the problem if you want to take action. Blaming bureaucrats is not helpful.
> Blaming bureaucrats is not helpful.
Bureaucrats are the ones making the rules of the game we have to play. So why shouldn't we blame them?
Chain of events is the lobbyists write the policies that are handed to the politicians who vote them in, then to the bureaucrats to execute them.
But the lobbyists work for the rich and the power. They are ultimately the chefs and ones who decide what the rules will be.
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