> Marketing better ideas of what government should be doing is the big thing that can be done to make it better.
Also known as "writing to your representatives" or "political activism" etc. But it doesn't work, and it doesn't matter. Does a slave master care about what his slave wants? They simply don't give a fuck.
Do you think the people in power do not know that Americans don't want to be detained indefinitely without due process or declared "enemy combatants" and shipped off to Guantanamo to be tortured on a whim?
If they do know, why is the NDAA in effect and why has it been renewed?
Do you think the people in power do not know that Americans don't want to pay for untold billions of dollars' worth of Wall Street's gambling losses?
If they do know, why are big banks given all those bail-outs?
And so on. The list of offences is practically endless.
> If there's not better ideas, or they aren't widespread enough to have a electorally-significant constituency that prioritizes them, voting isn't going to be able to effect much positive change.
I can't help but wonder whether you're working for the government. But I'll wrap this up here.
>Do you think the people in power do not know that Americans don't want to pay for untold billions of dollars' worth of Wall Street's gambling losses? If they do know, why are big banks given all those bail-outs?
Those are the wrong questions (or the right questions but with a wrong premise).
That's about the current people in power and their interests and ties.
Not every system of voting/government (including some that are not in effect anywhere currently) has the same potential for abuse, or puts the same scum in power.
Do you think it really matters that a hypothetical future group of rulers might conceivably make decisions that actually benefit the people, when the current ones clearly don't?
Here we are, in 2014, and under these specific circumstances. Reality matters, hypotheticals don't.
Also known as "writing to your representatives" or "political activism" etc. But it doesn't work, and it doesn't matter. Does a slave master care about what his slave wants? They simply don't give a fuck.
Do you think the people in power do not know that Americans don't want to be detained indefinitely without due process or declared "enemy combatants" and shipped off to Guantanamo to be tortured on a whim?
If they do know, why is the NDAA in effect and why has it been renewed?
Do you think the people in power do not know that Americans don't want to pay for untold billions of dollars' worth of Wall Street's gambling losses?
If they do know, why are big banks given all those bail-outs?
And so on. The list of offences is practically endless.
> If there's not better ideas, or they aren't widespread enough to have a electorally-significant constituency that prioritizes them, voting isn't going to be able to effect much positive change.
I can't help but wonder whether you're working for the government. But I'll wrap this up here.