@leedrutman In parliaments, one votes for a party, not a person, and that process is robustly funded by the state, so yeah. In the United States, so-called representatives are reduced to commodities, and our politics are reduced to a trading floor.
@leedrutman Real democracy is almost always manifest in indigenous cultures, tho the Classical Athenians qualify as the only example of a real *aspiring* democracy to have emerged from post-indigenous Eurasia. They were nearly there before the Macedonians co-opted them.
@leedrutman Classical Athens also catalyzed the first examples of communism to emerge from post-indigenous Eurasia. Aristotle records mention of it, and the Classical Cynics were essentially wandering ascetics who preached a return to Nature.
@leedrutman I doubt the United States will shift gears, nix the Constitution and dabble with parliamentary systems on a national scale, but it shouldn't be impossible on a smaller scale; say, in a township, for example.
@leedrutman It's more likely, however, given the language, character and history of our political system, to push what exists in the US into a maximum egalitarian state: perhaps the first example of a real democracy in the post-indigenous world.
@leedrutman We would simply need to increase the number of legislators in communities to encompass all residents, which is easier today than it would have been 100 years ago due to the advent of emerging technologies, which are under-utilized by the public sector.
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