#DemocracyReform

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2025-06-13

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Tony Cartledgetonycart
2025-05-19

Surviving the 21st century according to John MacGregor bsky.app/profile/johnmacgregor

If we are to survive the 21st Century,
our task is to fashion a system that
confers power without selling it,
facilitates information without creating it,
efficiently subtracts bad leaders from
the political equation, and tethers the
mutability of our era to a series of
dynamic constitutional experiments.

from ‘The Mechanics of Changing the World:
Political architecture to roll back state &
corporate power by John MacGregor
Michael James Bellmrumsky@expressional.social
2025-05-06

I'll be on a panel of voting reform experts tomorrow night. Stop by! Presented by Forward Party California.

Wednesday, May 7
7PM - 8:30PM PST

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist

#DemocracyReform
#ApprovalVoting

Tony Cartledgetonycart
2024-12-15

Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and US senators and congress members. So now we’ve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.
Jimmy Carter, 39th US president (2015)

Tony Cartledgetonycart
2024-12-14

The alliance of money and the interests that it represents, the access that it affords to those who have it at the expense of those who don’t, the agenda that it changes or sets by virtue of its power, is steadily silencing the voice of the vast majority of Americans.
Senator John Kerry (2013)

Tony Cartledgetonycart
2024-12-13

American democracy has been hacked... [Congress] is now incapable of passing laws without permission from the corporate lobbies and other special interests that control their campaign finances.
Al Gore (2013)

Tony Cartledgetonycart
2024-12-12

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president (1912)

Tony Cartledgetonycart
2024-12-08

Of the two great 20th Century forces to escape obsolescence in the 21st, it’s the corporation that has come to dominate democracy, and not the reverse. This is probably because one has been allowed to evolve, and the other has not.
The Mechanics of Changing the World by John MacGregor

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Tony Cartledgetonycart
2024-12-05

The alliance of money and the interests that it represents, the access that it affords to those who have it at the expense of those who don’t, the agenda that it changes or sets by virtue of its power, is steadily silencing the voice of the vast majority of Americans.
Senator John Kerry (2013)

Tony Cartledgetonycart
2024-11-30

The global polling organisation Worldpublicopinion.org found the belief that government is run by and for ‘a few big interests’ is pervasive in France (59%), Britain (60%), Argentina (71%), Nigeria and South Korea (78%), the United States (80%), Mexico (83%), and Ukraine (84%)—all ‘democracies’.
The Mechanics of Changing the World by John MacGregor

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Tony Cartledgetonycart
2024-11-29

For a well-functioning society, we need not to swing right or left: we require a political system by which informed majorities can craft a policy mosaic. Our present, inefficient form of democracy is likely to be replaced by authoritarianism, which is increasingly efficient. Reinventing democracy is not only desirable: it’s a condition for its survival.
The Mechanics of Changing the World by John MacGregor

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Tony Cartledgetonycart
2024-11-28

Western voters now understand that the currency in which corporations support
politicians is money, and the currency in which they are repaid is policy. The result is a disenchanted populace, and a professional political class that rules the democratic void.
The Mechanics of Changing the World by John MacGregor

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Tony Cartledgetonycart
2024-11-27

The hallmark division in modern society is probably not ‘left-right’, but the gap between ‘public preference’ and ‘public policy’—what the public wants from government and what it gets.
The Mechanics of Changing the World by John MacGregor

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Tony Cartledgetonycart
2024-11-26

Self-government was innate to human societies for hundreds of millennia. It’s the human norm. We now have the tools to do it at scale. Democratic reform should top the list of every reformer, activist and idealist, as it carries within it the seed of all reform.
John MacGregor
The Mechanics of Changing the World by John MacGregor

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Tony Cartledgetonycart
2024-11-25

A tool like direct democracy begins as a rather dull technical matter, but downstream (so a lot of data tells us) it manifests as prosperity and health; as less war and inequality; as happier societies and stronger families.
The Mechanics of Changing the World by John MacGregor

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Tony Cartledgetonycart
2024-11-24

Thanks to the labors of many, there are democratic tools at our disposal by which to make the sprawling Earth governable. One of these tools is direct democracy. Just as deliberation cuts the Gordian knot of dispersion, so does direct democracy undo the iron law of oligarchy.
The Mechanics of Changing the World by John MacGregor

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