Every human being deserves a say in the decisions that affect their lives and not be subject to the will of another. Therefore, we will work to increase public participation at every level of government and to ensure that our public representatives are fully accountable to the people who elect them. We will also work to create new types of political organizations which expand the process of participatory democracy by directly including citizens in the decision-making process.
I don't see the problem.
The way I think about it is that the best person to represent you is you. If you leave it that way you don't need representatives to be fully accountable in the first place.
This is how naive libertarians actually are.
I've said on many occasions I'm not a straight-up liberty-or-death libertarian. The point is that the more you transfer powers and abilities into government structures, the more you will need representatives to be accountable and the more convoluted it'll be. All I'm advocating is divorcing the political structure from the social one, and just allowing people to get the fuck on with their lives.Considering you anti-Statist persuasions, I'm sure you can at least concede to that.
we will work to increase public participation at every level of government
which expand the process of participatory democracy by directly including citizens in the decision-making process
Still not seeing how that translates to more state power.
No, because under this system citizens would have a say in how things are run, as opposed to being dependent on the whims of an insular ruling class.That equals less power for the state, not more.
the government is bloated and there are so many points-of-access.
For the rich, yes. For everyone else the problem is too few points of access.I suppose you could make the argument that rich people will end up controlling the system regardless, but the obvious solution to that problem would be to do away with capitalism.
Even without corporate welfare, you would still have to take into account lobbying, campaign donations, and privately-owned mass media.So long as all of those institutions remain in place, elections will always be rigged to the advantage of the corporate plutocracy.
So long as all of those institutions remain in place, elections will always be rigged to the advantage of the corporate plutocracy.
Getting rid of corporate welfare would eliminate most, if not all, of the incentives to lobby or donate
Not really, corporations will always have incentive to support politicians that are in favour of legislation that benefits them.
but the obvious solution to that problem would be to do away with capitalism.
As for the media? Oh well, first amendment. There's a broad range of information available from a number of sources, if you don't like it then you're perfectly free to look elsewhere for information.Inheritance tax should be abolished; it hurts the middle-class the most. Countries like Sweden have done fine without it.
First off human nature is to be greedy
Then this kind of attitude isn't conducive to getting rid of it.
I agree with your sentiments but goddamn the human nature argument pisses me off.
And replace it with what? Socialism? Communism? First off human nature is to be greedy, just look at the nations that called themselves Communist (Cuba, China, Vietnam, North Korea, Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc nations, etc) they all fell victim to a few elite taking control of the nation and wealth and treating the people like shit but utilized brainwashing to make them think they were living a good life. Not only was life terrible under these systems but goods and services were shit also as there were no companies competing to drive innovation, quality improvement, cheap prices, etc. Because human nature is to want things (being greedy) it's the very reason why capitalism, and capitalistic-like systems, have always flourished, it allows everybody to want instead of a small few who then turn to controlling the masses
Getting rid of bad media or inheritance tax?
I would argue that the problem with all those countries is that the state wrested control of the means of production away from the workers after the revolution.And as shitty as Cuba is, it's still a much better place to live than most South American countries.
1. The concept of Communism is to get rid of social classes and government and makes the means of production as common ownership among the people. Those countries exhibited a government and were never truly communist
2. As I said, humans are greedy and will wrestle for control when there's an empty political vacuum. What better what to induce such behavior with a system that has no authority ti stop people from trying to take over? The concept of communism is the best system, when it's written on paper that is
3. These countries went directly from a feudalistic, or feudalistic-type society, directly to a communist one. Karl Marx expressed that society must go through stages in order to reach communism and one of them is capitalism. Ever heard of his saying "Democracy is the road to socialism."?