Tag: democracy

Okay So I’m Seeing Some Good Critiques Of Consensus And Democracy

Makes it easy for a big group to oppress a smaller one, which while probably kinda better than a small group oppressing a bigger one, cause less people are oppressed is still inherently shitty, cause like democracy can be used to oppress POC in a white majority country and stuff, but then we have this history of that idea being used to use the theoretical people to oppress the literal people

So like?  What do?

Google is only turning up monarchists

I’m not saying there is no good alternative, I just have no frickin’ idea.

Like I mean constitutions n’ shit are supposed to stop that but we know that hasn’t worked so well… so?

But on the other hand some ideas about how to avoid the problems of these things haven’t worked well, so?

Democracy’s greatest strength and greatest weakness is that it is a system based upon compromise

I think a lot of people fail to understand that, or do understand that and avoid involvement because they believe that such a thing compromises moral purity, and tends to moderate one, but I disagree, a willingness to compromise to get something done, is far more radical than saying “I’d rather have things stay as they are, because doing anything that might actually work to change them would undermine my radical beliefs.”

If the choice is between making a compromise with the opposition and having five hundred people treated for an illness who wouldn’t have been able to access care otherwise (but not all the people who wouldn’t be able to access care) and not getting into it and zero people being treated, I’m going with the five hundred.

If the choice is between making a compromise with the opposition and having 100 children slaughtered and leaving it alone and having the opposition reach a consensus of 10,000 children slaughtered, I’m going with the 100, even if that sounds vile, even if that sounds horrible, I’d rather save 9,900 lives than lose 10,000

Do. What. It. Takes.