#RepresentativeGovernment
Something deep state fucks don't get/ dismiss is that without serious government transparency, democracy is a hollow sham and our votes are meaningless.
"I voted for Johnny Gunn and sent him thousands in taxes."
"What'd Johnny do with that money?"
"I have no idea where half of it went, and I never will. And if someone shows me how some of it's being misspent, Johnny will fuck them up good!"
A quotation from Herbert Hoover
The very basis of Representative Government is a two‐party system. It is one of the essential checks and balances against inefficiency, dishonesty, and tyranny.
An organized, effective opposition which insists upon disclosure of the facts and submits them to the anvil of debate is the one safety Representative Government has.
Moreover, the people must have alternative programs of action upon which they may decide at the ballot box.
Beyond this, any party in power accumulates barnacles and deadwood which can only be rid by a change in administration.
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1951-08-01), “On the Two-Party System,” Utah Republican Outing, Salt Lake City, Utah
More info about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/78694…
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A quotation from George Carlin
Everyone complains about politicians. Everyone says they suck. But where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky; they don’t pass through a membrane from a separate reality. They come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, and American businesses. And they’re elected by American voters. This is what our system produces, folks. This is the best we can do. Let’s face it, we have very little to work with. Garbage in, garbage out.
George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (2001), Napalm & Silly Putty, “Don’t Blame the Leaders”
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The English Constitution is founded, tis bottomed And grounded on the Knowledge and good sense of the People. The very Ground of our Liberties, is the freedom of Elections. Every Man has in Politicks as well as Religion, a Right to think and speak and Act for himself. No man either King or Subject, Clergyman or Layman has any Right to dictate to me the Person I shall choose for my Legislator and Ruler. I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any Man judge, unless his Mind has been opened and enlarged by Reading.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Diary (1761-08-01)
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ARTHUR: I am your king.
WOMAN: Well, I didn’t vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don’t vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well how’d you become king then?
ARTHUR: (angelic music plays) The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. (angelic music stops) That is why I am your king.
DENNIS: (interrupting) Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
ARTHUR: (grabbing him by the collar) Shut up! Will you shut up!
Monty Python (b. 1969) British comedy troupe [Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin]
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, sc. 3 (1975)
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Not sure but definitely would be a move towards #RepresentativeGovernment - which is the opposite of #Fascism & #Oligarchy
"Far from being expected to demonstrate personal charisma or the ability to outdo rivals, those who aspired to a role on the Council of Tlaxcala did so in a spirit of self-deprecation—even shame—and were required to subordinate themselves to the people of the city."
#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, 2020
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/democracy/hiding-plain-sight
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#ShoutOut to all the #Primary2024 #ElectionWorkers
#Respect to the folks who enable #RepresentativeGovernment (such as it is, w plenty of room for improvement)
:BLM: :af:
Solidarity from #PierceCounty
@FranckLeroy Nation states, or just states, as in a political entity, vs. a wealth-derived one?
Keep in mind that a nation is a cultural construct, a state is a political one.
Nation-states are contrasted against empires (multiple nationalities under one polity), city-states (a single municipality or municipal region, several of which still exist), confederations, etc. The term arose in the 18th and 19th centuries as contrasted to highly provincial states in which allegiances were to a local lord, and perhaps a central monarch, but affinity and allegiance to neighbouring polities, even under the same overarching umbrella was at best low. This even extended to entities we now consider as nation states: in the early United States popular sentiment flowed much more to individual states rather than the country as a whole, though about the Civil War as I understand. "Nation-state" was a cosmopolitan viewpoint.
This turned in the 20th century, particularly under the 1st & 2nd World Wars, in which nation-states were constraining concept rather than an expanding one, in which rather than uniting individual polities of a single nation (notably Germany and Italy), the notion of the nation state pitted nations (that is, cultural heritages) against one another.
It seems you're wanting to contrast something else, probably against a plutocracy or corporate state (such as, say, the British East India Company, which once literally governed India as a corporation, or more modern examples of petro-states (KSA, House of Saud, and Saudi Aramco are difficult to disentangle, similar comparisons might be made of mid-20th century banana republics (Dole), kieretsu (Japan) and Chaebol (S. Korea). Liberal democracy, representative democracy, or even a limited constitutional monarchy (UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Thailand, etc.) also come to mind.
Non-nation-states include the United States (its formative construct is its constitution, not, at least nominally, race, heritage, or religion), the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland (famously comprised of French, Italian, German, and Romance nationalities), the Netherlands (Flemish and Walloons), the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), India (Hindu and Muslim religions, both famously an fractiously), Lebanon (Christian and Muslim), just off the top of my head.
That said: If you're arguing that polity is what contrasts to rule-by-wealth, yes, I'm in strong agreement.
https://www.britannica.com/question/What-is-the-difference-between-a-nation-and-a-state
#Nation #State #NationState #Polity #LiberalDemocracy #RepresentativeGovernment #Plutocracy #Governance
New #ITtools required for functional #transparency & #democracy ..:
a) #uncensorable and #verifiable #citizen #voting . Secured & enforced by e.g. #blockchain + #distributed #checksums and #P2P #storage .
b) Enforce real #representativeGovernment through citizen-controlled transparency for decision-making in #politics using #multilayer #digitalidentity & #decentralized #socialMedia .
c) #MultiFactor #authentication incl. a mix of #biometrics + manual factors. Controlled by each person, not a #centralAuthority . No need for #passports etc. anymore.
d) Decentralized / #synchronized storage, verifiable (#irrefutable) by anyone, any time, anywhere. (Soon technical & #economical #reality. We're at the brink of a #disruptive storage #technology #breakthrough . Needed for most parts of modern #progress / #society / #business )
