Converation thread

No.

Well, not much can be done individually, but a lot can be done as groups.

Yeah, just give government, the most evil institution in the history of humanity, absolute power over our lives, liberties, and properties and everything will be alright!

How exactly would you propose holding a government with massive powers over life, liberty, and property accountable, and can you prove it's possible?

PS: I don't believe in "power to the people" I believe in "power to no one." Minimise political power, because it's equally evil no matter if it's democratic or autocratic.

Power could do anything, good or bad, it’s not necessarily evil, but the temptation to use it for such is what makes people believe that. For starters, cut the relationship between state and corporate interests. One could do so by cutting out the corporate lobbying middle-man and publicly funding elections rather than letting them pass money through committees and group funds to politicians, who will in turn give those corporations massive tax reductions or attempt to reduce their regulations. We could also switch to a ranker voting system to make the voting process more than just &ldqu…  Read moreo;choose one and you’re done”, thereby making it possible for the little politicians, who might be good, capable of getting into office. Doing so would also reduce the power of the 2 party system. We could enforce politician transparency as much as possible by publishing just about everything about their private lives that wouldn’t endanger their very existence. We could just ban corporate lobbying as a whole. We could get rid of the extremely anti-democratic electoral college, which has long since served its purpose. We could enforce anti-corruption laws already put in place as much as possible. There’s a lot we can do, but it starts with purging said government without making a Project 2025 level difference in the negative side.

None of the things you suggested to check political power actually check political power, they're all additional regulations on private individuals, and they've been tried, without success, in European nations already...

did you miss the politician part? Might I remind you that European has some of the least corrupt and happiest countries on earth. Europe’s soul is in the best shape it’s been in centuries because of this kind of policy

Yeah, unless you count the police state locking up teachers in Ireland and Britain for refusing to use their students fake "pronouns," a dropping standard of living, sky-high prices, the threat of continental war, inflation that's often worse than our own, the collapse of the nuclear family, and the recent destruction of the British Empire, they're practically living in Heaven.