I think the problem there is that the power-hungry will always erode the goodness of the government over time, causing the return of issues like billionaires. If there’s a way to prevent that, I haven’t been told about it.
The solution is probably just, resisting it as hard as when the issue gets really bad, just all the time. The people in charge need to work for everyone, and that requires everyone to constantly be on their ass about it.
I think you’re right. The power-hungry will wipe out any checks and balances that are enacted on them. how to prevent this? easy answer: apply laws and regulations that target insurmountable amounts of wealth.
here’s the difficult part: getting it to happen and actually making it stick. how can we, as a society, do this? I’m not sure, but it has been done before.
I hate to deify the founding fathers more than they already have been but they outlined this one for us pretty clearly. Each generation was meant to make substantial changes to the laws of the nation and if that failed to maintain our freedom then coordinated violence against the oppressors is the fallback solution. This belief is clear both from the laws they enacted and their personal writings. We’ve conditioned ourselves to believe that violence is never appropriate and those who are oppressing us are exploiting that fact to an absurd degree. Nothing will change until our oppressors believe that physical harm will come to them if they do not stop oppressing us.
“On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct”
-Thomas Jefferson
Politicians have become so disconnected from reality that they’ve become lords of their own little fiefdoms and unless they are reminded that the job is to represent, not rule, then nothing will change for the better. Unfortunately when the ballot box doesn’t work, ammo is next.
I think the problem there is that the power-hungry will always erode the goodness of the government over time, causing the return of issues like billionaires. If there’s a way to prevent that, I haven’t been told about it.
Iron rule of oligarchy
The solution is probably just, resisting it as hard as when the issue gets really bad, just all the time. The people in charge need to work for everyone, and that requires everyone to constantly be on their ass about it.
I think you’re right. The power-hungry will wipe out any checks and balances that are enacted on them. how to prevent this? easy answer: apply laws and regulations that target insurmountable amounts of wealth.
here’s the difficult part: getting it to happen and actually making it stick. how can we, as a society, do this? I’m not sure, but it has been done before.
I hate to deify the founding fathers more than they already have been but they outlined this one for us pretty clearly. Each generation was meant to make substantial changes to the laws of the nation and if that failed to maintain our freedom then coordinated violence against the oppressors is the fallback solution. This belief is clear both from the laws they enacted and their personal writings. We’ve conditioned ourselves to believe that violence is never appropriate and those who are oppressing us are exploiting that fact to an absurd degree. Nothing will change until our oppressors believe that physical harm will come to them if they do not stop oppressing us.
“On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct”
-Thomas Jefferson
Politicians have become so disconnected from reality that they’ve become lords of their own little fiefdoms and unless they are reminded that the job is to represent, not rule, then nothing will change for the better. Unfortunately when the ballot box doesn’t work, ammo is next.