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<<So I'm wondering: Among the folks who enjoy the partisan tit-for-tat, would you be willing to move your eternal debate to a new partisan politics board (if Manlobbi agreed to create one) and leave this one to build a less partisan atmosphere?>>
Excellent idea, please let me know everyone/anyone a food name for such a political board. Maybe it shouldn't have a title that limits it to newspaper politics, but instead can encourage meaningful enquiries? So maybe not 'Partisan Politics'?
Perhaps imagining a square where people voice complaints directly to their King (or other power structure), with a title that inspires creating one's own narrative rather than focussing on the narratives advertised to us for our attention.
In China they actually do this routinely - villages are visited regularly/systematically by law where people sit in the open to voice concerns directly - in public - to the party, and this format has the function that if you lie (such as 'I didn't receive X or Y last month') then because it is public you are scorned, so people tend to voice genuine complaints only. This happens at a micro level across all villages with lower level party members recording the data and then it is fed up and actually addressed, usually with tests on smaller regions before expanding further when successful. Dare I say, at least this component, a lot more democratic* than a system where people press a vote button once every four years that is largely in response to the marketing budget size (careful studies by Thomas Ferguson showed that when correlating all variables - charisma, policy, consistency etc - with election success, it was shown definitively that there is just a single variable that accounts for almost all success - that of campaign funding. So the policy is barely relevant and this has lately become openly accepted as policy is increasingly not even discussed, and if it was, then the acted policy has little relation to the promised policy usually furthermore. It is a predictable consequence that, because large business, rather than the public, solely decides upon policy, then neoliberalism and non-interference will also be drummed into us incessantly to almost become a religion replacement, along with consumerism etc. These principles apply across most of Europe, the Commonwealth countries (former British colonies) and USA.).
- Manlobbi
* We are trained to view democracy as the popular voting method. But this is a 'method' to facilitate democracy, rather than anything more than a highly abstract relation to democracy. Democracy itself, rather, relates to the public having influence over how they are governed, and there are an infinite means of doing that other than the button pressing method, which has been shown to be largely correlated only to marketing budget (which is a text-book definition of bribery - money paid for individual gain, and having public consequence, but without the bribe rating to public consequence) size, and not policy itself anyway.
