| sc94597 said: My view is that the U.S is as it was intended to be by its slave-holding gentry constructors. It has a "classical small "r" republican mixed government." Not much can be done to change the U.S to be small "d" democratic. If one wants democracy in the country controlled by the United States one should support the abolition of the United States and promote liquid democracy in agro-industrial federations of associated producers and geo-communal federations after the capitalist class and middle classes are subsumed into the working class majority. |
To expand on my comment here. Think of how hard it would be to transition the U.S to multi-membered districts.
You'd not only have to fight against the Republican Party but also the Democratic Party as both parties are invested in maintaining first past the post because it is that where they derive their power.
Hell, look at what happened in Canada when Trudeau ran his initial platform on abolishing FPTP and then never actually did that. And a Canadian prime minister has more power over legislation than any single person in the U.S system does.
It would take action on the order of a political revolution to move to multi-membered districts, one of the mildest small "d" democratic reforms.
If it takes that much political will, why not just fundamentally change the social system and create the most democratic institutions in the world?
The options are either tinkering with the status-quo which won't fundamentally change anything or amassing a mass movement which shouldn't stop at moderate reforms but should actually transform us away from the capitalism that threatens human existence.
