I don’t know. Thanks to the SCOTUS, I’m inclined to think we’re well beyond the point in *most* US electoral districts where winning an election now flags you as *disqualified* to represent your constituents. It will take some new form of direct democracy with a different form of federalism to create version 3.0 democracy and block generations of authoritarian rule by billionaire technocrats and racist demagogues.
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For multiple reasons we shouldn’t wait for the press or military to acknowledge that our current representative democracy is a sham. First, they’re institutionally designed to mesh with the old broken system and will need to be led out of it.
Second, we need to start practicing self-rule, learning the ropes, working out the kinks, even if at first there’s not a lot of real power exercised. Others are in a much better position to speak to this than I am. But I do want to learn and participate.
This is me trying to be upbeat and hopeful, by the way. 😆
Thanks for that clarification! When we're down in a deep, dark hole (as all of us are now, whether we know it or not) we sound like Beelzebub belching smoke from a volcano, or, at best, like Marvin the insufferably neurotic robot. But there is reason to be upbeat and hopeful, as you say.
Borrowing from a "Pogo" cartoon, "we're surrounded by insurmountable opportunities". 🥴
@oldclumsy_nowmad I like “insurmountable opportunities.” Eventually they’ll overcome us no matter how we resist or try to disbelieve.
But the partisans on the other side (super-rich? or whatever) are thinking the same way. They're sure they'll be overcome no matter how they resist. (I think.)
The joke's on all us naked little monkeys, isn't it?
@oldclumsy_nowmad sure. I’m not even concerned that much about the actual outcome. Time (if it’s real at all, which is contested) is a flow marked by all things being impermanent. Outcomes are arbitrary since nothing any of us do will last. I just want us to act with care for each other while we have our time here. That’s what dignity means, irrespective of “winning” which is kind of an illusion, just a story.
