Professor Larry Lessig has outlined at length how elections are corrupt, and we’ve watched the courts get so corrupt, well that Citizens United, Loper Bright and Trump v. US 2024 were able to be ruled without intervention from a psychiatric ward.
The thing is, courts are an alternative to settling civil and social disputes with violence. And elections allow for the peaceful transfer of power (e.g. without violence).
So if both the courts and elections are subverted (they are) violence becomes the default way by which regimes are ousted and laws are changed.
The reason we tried to set up democracy in the first place was all the Game of Thrones shit. It seems the ownership class never got the memo how bad it gets.
They haven’t forgot, they’re just pushing it as far as they can, and a frustrated, exhausted, pacified populace has let it happen.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Professor Larry Lessig has outlined at length how elections are corrupt, and we’ve watched the courts get so corrupt, well that Citizens United, Loper Bright and Trump v. US 2024 were able to be ruled without intervention from a psychiatric ward.
The thing is, courts are an alternative to settling civil and social disputes with violence. And elections allow for the peaceful transfer of power (e.g. without violence).
So if both the courts and elections are subverted (they are) violence becomes the default way by which regimes are ousted and laws are changed.
The reason we tried to set up democracy in the first place was all the Game of Thrones shit. It seems the ownership class never got the memo how bad it gets.
They haven’t forgot, they’re just pushing it as far as they can, and a frustrated, exhausted, pacified populace has let it happen.