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Why do Western democracies falter in a crisis?
While promising flexibility, their core mechanics, including short election cycles and the influence of wealth, create a rigid system that protects the status quo.
These procedural democracies are tragically ill-equipped for the transformative change needed to solve complex problems, from climate to economic instability.
https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/the-status-quo-machine
@yogthos The issue is that any kind of profound, enduring change takes a long time. Further, at the initial phase of any such change you're going to see possible backsliding on key elements.
This means that if you are at risk of being thrown out of power by a demagogue who will take advantage of people's dissatisfaction at that backslide, you will not take any long-term action. Ever.
Whatever you do has to pay off in a single election cycle. And nothing worth doing can.
@ZDL yeah that's kind of my core thesis in the article. Basically, you end up with a number of selection pressures that create perverse incentives. Short election cycles are one of the major problems.
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