VN Alexander
Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

After the French Revolution the idea of Democracy died. Elites are afraid of the mob. They don’t trust us to make decisions about how we should be governed. And yes, the French Revolution was horrifying. Percy Shelley (English poet: “We are many; they are few”) who was a principal thinker behind the ideas of socialism, women’s rights, civil disobedience, and democracy, was afraid of the mob too, and advocated for slow change, not revolution. We’ve been in a slow trainwreck ever since. I think the idea of democracy never really recovered from the guillotine. But the thing is now, we have a worse situation in which the mob are never asked to think. They are just asked to get behind one symbol or another. They aren’t asked to vote on legislation or think about policy. What if our representatives’ votes were determined by their constituents on every bill? The people who don’t care to think and would rather just vote for team colors might not bother to vote on legislation. It’s time we came up with a new solution to the problem of oligarchy. We cannot swing back and forth between the false prophets of Socialism and Corporatism any more. https://DirectDemocracyUU.org/

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VN Alexander

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author of Locus Amoenus, a dark comedy about Hamlet as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.