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California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies (www.theguardian.com)

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Outcry over taxes is just one of the ways the tech sector is ramping up its influence campaign. Several Super Pacs have popped up over the past few months and tech is injecting these committees with tens of millions.

McCuan said this strategy is helpful for the ultra-wealthy because it allows them to stay behind the scenes, while donating limitless money.

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[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Again, you have skipped over the principal point or points that i am making.

Democracy is not working. An important difference to distinguish between anarchism and democracy is how easy it is to coerce and/or corrupt the central body in charge. That is what is happening now on a massive scale, it was always happening on a large scale we can assume, but now it's leaps and bounds above anything that we have seen before, just look at what is happening in South America as a result, for example.

My main point is still that democracy is not working now, and ANY alternative could help, if not least, to reset the whole thing.

A governing body made up of a very small minority easily corrupt with many career political families only benefits those already with the power and money.

[–] HetareKing@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago

Your points? You haven't been making any! All you've been doing is treating the assertions that democracy is susceptible to corruption and anarchism less so as almost axiomatic, backing it with little more than "look at how bad things are!" (while ignoring all other factors that created the current state of things) and a need for an alternative, while being dishonest about what democracy is.

All forms of governance, with no exceptions, require delegation. But as soon as you delegate, there is room for corruption, and therefore a need to prevent it. In other words, there is always going to be a minority of people mandated with authority and a need for mechanisms to ensure that they don't abuse that authority. And any system of accountability that involves fewer people than the public, is going to be more corruptible than one that does involve the public. Even anarchism would, without a democratic core, inevitably decay into a dictatorship in all but name. By insisting that anarchism is distinct from democracy, you're contributing to undermining the very thing you're trying to achieve.

If you're trying to say that there are some very fundamental problems with current implementations of democracy, I wholeheartedly agree. But do put it that way, then. Democracy is entirely too important to be reduced to a lure for replies.