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    3 days ago

    If voting didn’t work, you will blame it on corruption or unprecedented times like war or natural disaster.

    Its either democracy or some external thing happened, never that voting didn’t bring democracy.

    And we haven’t even touched the subject of legally making it difficult for minority and “unwanted” groups to vote. We also didn’t talk about immigrants who live work and pay taxes but are not represented by voting





  • In general I agree with you, but I would refrain from using evolution/DNA example. Because then it leads to ‘social darwinism’.

    Evolution does not mean ‘more evolved is better’ but rather ‘more suited to the environment’.

    Take psychopathy (or even apthy towards minority groups) as an example, in a capitalist system, psychopathy is more evolved because you get to climb the corporate ladder faster.

    But this assumes that capitalism is unchanging, and final form of our society. But in reality, we can change the system. Under socialism or social democracy (with strict laws), psychopathy would no longer be ‘more evolved’.