Cast by adrienne
3 years later and I’m still having trouble finding a candidate with these values - pro-capitalist - pro-democracy - anti-tribal (bi-partisan) - pro-progress (looks to future, not the past)
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when I wrote that list 3 years ago I was frustrated that in my state of new york the democrat party would not run a primary As a registered democrat, I did not have a say in who ended up on the ballot Felt extremely un-democratic to me, especially for the party that claims the other side was ruining democracy
The first two, at least in practice today, definitely feels that way Obviously I can’t just judge a candidate by their talking points
at first i thought you were talking about a candidate *to hire* (didn't realize us is in the process of voting rn) and i have to say i had a really hard time imagining such a person - which imo says a lot about viability of such a figure in *politics* which is a lot more make pretend
Do you know about the digital democracy movement? Plurality.net Technically, the only way we get a candidate like that would be with a complete overhaul of the political system. No more representatives. Go direct, one agent per person. Or even techno-democracy [Balaji]
Perhaps because capitalism is incompatible with democracy. Capitalism is the system where those with the most capital dominate politics and the economy. We have to end capitalism if we want to try democracy.
We have 10,000 candidates. None of them would pass either.
Agreed, the system is broken, we have to build a better digital one Ethereum
The problem is is that that first one usually eats away at and then eventually out invalidates the later three. Maybe they once all coexisted about 30 plus years ago but that's no longer the case.
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