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State redistricting battles are a sign of a #brokendemocracy. #usdemocracy #democracy

‘If our loyalty is turned to what exists, intolerance begins at its frontiers; if it is turned, as Plato’s was, to Utopia, we shall find Utopia defended with intolerance.’ Walter Lippmann, ‘The basic problem with Democracy’ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1919/11/the-basic-problem-of-democracy/569095/
Oligarchs and plutocrats defend ideological intolerance, as they want to keep their benefits to live like gods, enhancing and enforcing their fascist utopia. Plato’s Socrates defended the virtue of the dialectic principle, not the anthropomorphic credence of super humans which oligarchs believe themselves by their delusions of grandeur to be, so isn’t that why they executed Socrates? My case, is corporate democracy denies the choice to vote for that which contradicts it like an interests democracy, so democracy is broken. To fix it, just give the people the choice so none can shirk their responsibilities or claim the people just want to be told what to do, or are incapable of thinking otherwise. That of course is a very stupid assumption and is why the ultra rich are often overthrown by revolutions and civil wars! #FascistUtopia #Democracy #Revolution #BrokenDemocracy #AntiFascistFreedom #FixedDemocracy #CivilWar #CorporateDemocracy #InterestsDemocracy

@csgraves Do you mean democracy as it currently exists is not democratic, so not broken? Capitalism wouldn’t exist without the negative-sum gaming of two party democracy by making its elections depend on corporate finance. To make it clearer, democracy as it exists serves corporate sovereignty, so is not democracy given it can be defined otherwise. No market can function without Capital, but by regulating it to favour the interests of corporations colonial interests capitalism is the capture of democracy. It inevitably becomes fascism as their investors use their wealth to gain power, which results in antitrust monopolies to favour deregulation. Democracy, can be conceived to protect and serve the democratic rights of diverse interests. Since the people have not and possibly cannot defend and serve an interests democracy on pain of censorship, unemployment, imprisonment and or death <democracy broken: the choice of democracy cannot be voted for>. It can be fixed, if corporate democracy is defeated? It will not, while money buys elections!
#TheCaseForDemocracy #Capitalism #CorporateDemocracy #Democracy #BrokenDemocracy #InterestsDemocracy #Fascism