Welcome back. So we looked at the failure of our market
economy so why not our democracy. Let's begin. (I take inspiration from
the Economist and Foreign Affairs)
Issues with our Democracy: The first issue is that elites have
superior access to power and information which is used to protect wealth.
Remember the sugar grower’s example in yesterday's issue? This is
part of that. Rules in general and access to politicians due to this
political clout allow these individuals and businesses to get information first
before everyone else. So what to do here? Simple, let everyone have
access to that information by having government not get in the way. By
having less government involvement it means less chances for government to
solidify unfair competition.
Issue two is that we, the ordinary voters
do not get angry at our corrupt politicians as we generally do not know that
money is being stolen in the first place. As such we need to get the money
out of politics. No, this does not mean more rules to be enforced
however. It actually means less money being taken from us, the taxpayers.
It means no more pensions or even salaries for politicians, less
government as this means less money and as such each level of government
focusing on its own responsibilities only. Smaller government means we
can see it better, and even limiting when they can meet and vote helps with
this too.
Our other two issues are our fault.
Firstly we have our cognitive rigidities and beliefs. This can be
religion, ideology or just being stubborn. However, these things prevent
social groups from mobilizing because we keep looking at what is different.
In other words we sabotage our ability to organize. This leads to our
other issue. Different groups have different abilities with respect to
actually being able to organize in the first place. As such minority
groups can misportray themselves as the majority in some cases and lead us
further down the wrong path. So what can we do? Well, we have to
start looking at what we all agree on. It is all about uniting behind things
one at a time and talking it out to decide what needs to change and how.
Once that is done, then we all get up at once and say never again and
perpetuate that.
Conclusion: I personally always come to the
conclusion that less government is best for those in power amplify these
problems in our democracy. We may not need to organize as much if there
were less rules turning people who are completely innocent into criminals
(victimless crimes). But alas, this is what we created for ourselves.
So now we struggle to undo the harm we have done to ourselves.
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