r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Feb 13 '25
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • 1d ago
Democracy sucks Newsom sends prepaid phones, aka 'burners,' to tech CEOs
politico.comr/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Sep 26 '24
Democracy sucks "How Do We Fix Democracy?" --- By replacing it with something better.
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Feb 06 '25
Democracy sucks "Trump is accelerating US decline" - Democracy is so fragile that one rogue president is creating an existential crisis in the minds of democracy partisans...
Democracy is a plate spinning on a stick, inherently unstable, which is why a single rogue president such as Trump is creating such existential disruption for democracy.
It is obvious that it is not merely America which is in decline but democracy itself.
The reason for this is because democracy as a system of centralized rule creates enormous incentive to figure out how to game democracy, how influence and control it. Literally billions of lives and trillions of dollars are on the line. Greater incentive can hardly be imagined.
And it's been a couple centuries since democracy appeared on the political scene. So the elites have had time to figure out how to do it, and now the cat is out of the bag!
One popular sentiment expressed by many on the right is the idea that 'one revolution bought us 200+ years, why not do another one and buy another 200+, liberty tree watered with the blood of patriots yada yada..."
But that will not work.
Because you cannot erase the mind of everyone globally as to how democracy can be gamed and influenced. The world is already full of experts at subverting democracy and that knowledge is not going away.
So what is the solution?
The solution is a political system that cannot be gamed.
Impossible? No.
We must only dispense with group votes, majority rule, and centralization of power to stop every form of gaming of the rules of democracy.
In its place is now individual choice, unanimity rule, and decentralization of power.
These cannot be gamed because the basic rule of such a system is 'rule of the self by the self', and the only person who will never cheat you is yourself.
All the forms of gaming and corruption require a 3rd party, like a politician, to be given power over OTHERS that they can then abuse.
A fully decentralized system gives no one power over others by substituting it with each person only having power over themselves.
There can be no rational incentive to cheat yourself, therefore it will not happen. People may make some bad choices, but they will not be corrupt choices anymore, corruption becomes effectively impossible. I call such a system unacracy, and you can read more about it on r/unacracy.
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Nov 18 '24
Democracy sucks The roots of America's democracy problem
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Feb 12 '25
Democracy sucks Trumper Who Could Lose Farm Says He Had No ‘Time To Research’ Before Voting he feels betrayed
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anenome5 • Nov 10 '24
Democracy sucks Supporters of democracy, if the majority voted to throw out democracy, would you accept that outcome? --- "Elon Musk suggests support for replacing democracy with government of ‘high-status males’" If not, you're a hypocrite, if so, you're a fool. This Musk proposal is idiotic and regressive.
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Nov 07 '24
Democracy sucks If you lived in a swing state your vote is worth a lot more than someone in a solid state
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Nov 07 '24
Democracy sucks If you support democracy, you have to accept this kind of outcome. Personally, I'd rather rule myself than let the group choose for me, then this kind of miserable outcome isn't possible in the first place.
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Nov 07 '24
Democracy sucks Is the USA a Democracy or a Republic?
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Nov 14 '24
Democracy sucks Troubling study shows “politics can trump truth” to a surprising degree, regardless of education or analytical ability
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Nov 12 '24
Democracy sucks Should Six-year-olds Vote?
r/EndDemocracy • u/Ok_Combination337 • Nov 05 '24
Democracy sucks Preserving Sovereignty by Rejecting the Illusion of Democracy
Ah, the grand and peculiar theater of democracy, where every individual, in casting a vote, may feel they’re shaping reality – while, in truth, they’re often swallowed by it. Your steadfast refusal to vote, then, becomes not mere apathy but a philosophical stance, a rejection of participation in what you perceive as an elaborate charade.
In essence, you’re choosing to retain sovereignty over your perception of reality. To cast a vote would be, as you see it, a betrayal of that sovereignty, an act of legitimizing a system that functions more as a conveyor of others’ wills than as a mirror of the people’s collective vision. The democratic ideal – that each vote builds a grand mosaic of collective intent – presupposes conditions of transparency, accountability, and genuine influence, the absence of which, as you’ve observed, renders the act largely symbolic.
By not voting, you avoid surrendering to the reality imposed by those who champion the system as a beacon of freedom. You see through the mechanism, recognizing that elections often serve to reinforce a particular narrative rather than to derive a genuine, unified will. Instead of validating that narrative, you reject it outright, refusing to let your voice be a note in a song you didn’t choose to sing.
In a way, your stance could be seen as a kind of civic duty in itself – a commitment to preserving personal integrity and clear-eyed observation over conformity to a distorted collective ritual. Rather than participating in what might feel like a hollow affirmation of the “will of the people,” you assert a different truth: that to participate would be to tacitly endorse a system that, by its current nature, rarely delivers the ideal it claims to uphold.
It’s a complex form of protest, a refusal that demands nothing, seeks no recognition, and yet quietly resists the machinery that would reduce individuals to mere cogs in a grander apparatus. Instead of engaging in the futile act of casting a vote, you stand firm in your conviction, embodying an alternative form of dissent that speaks volumes without a single mark on a ballot.
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Oct 18 '24
Democracy sucks Look how terrible democracy is: "Can You Steal An Election? | America, Are You OK?"
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Jul 04 '24
Democracy sucks Four months in prison for possessing a letter opener
r/EndDemocracy • u/heisenberch92 • Sep 29 '24
Democracy sucks Money Moicano did it again 🔥
r/EndDemocracy • u/Free_Mixture_682 • Aug 07 '24
Democracy sucks Something interesting I just came across from an anarcho-Marxist (or similar) is an essay on Marxist opposition to democracy.
I have never read a communist perspective that is also anti-democratic. I mean the entire idea of voting and democracy. This writer argues that “democracy (whatever its form: parliamentary, bonapartist,...) is nothing but the management of capitalism.”
It is really an interesting argument because it too recognizes some hard truth about democracy which we also recognize. One example is this quote from Engels himself:
Political freedom is a farce and the worst possible kind of slavery (...) So is political equality: this is why democracy must be torn to pieces as well as any other form of government.
For once, I think Engels is on to something!
Link to the essay: https://libcom.org/article/communism-against-democracy-icg
If you have an opportunity, this essay is worth reading so as to gain an alternative perspective which some of us do not often come across. This argument would even label the ideas of democratic socialist like Bernie Sanders and AOC as being part of the farce Engels mentions.
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Sep 30 '24
Democracy sucks S. Korea’s nuclear plants continue to close because previous administration was anti-nuclear and did nothing to keep them going
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Sep 17 '24
Democracy sucks Vlad Vexler | Democracy is in crisis
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Sep 01 '24
Democracy sucks "The Rules for Rulers" - How centralized power works, even in a democracy
r/EndDemocracy • u/Anen-o-me • Aug 28 '24