Re:The League of Extraordinary Assholes
by spaceprophet on Monday December 28, 2015 @08:54PM
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I disagree. Assume a law was passed in 2012 that made it mandatory for every citizen to vote.
Would it have produced an outcome that didn't involve Obama or Romney?
In 2016, will it produce an outcome that doesn't involve Clinton, Sanders, or Trump?
And in any case, we are worse off.
Democracy is a tool, not a solution.
The solution lies in philosophy, in morality.
An immoral society elects immoral leaders because it cannot collectively discriminate between right and wrong.
There's no easy way out of this, but if there's any way, it doesn't involve passing more laws.
And let's be straightforward about the form of that sleep: political apathy which led the non-asshole class to stop voting. Apathy allowed the assholes to walk in and take the place in broad daylight. And when apathy didn't work, they worked to weaken the very process of voting. The Voting Rights Act was the last visible sign of this, but the last two presidential elections were rife with voter suppression.