Cory Doctorow@pluralistic@mamot.fr
If you (correctly) believe you live in a world where politicians don't care about you, why not vote for a strongman who'll punish your enemies and maybe leave you with a few crumbs?
But on the other hand, this is very exciting, because it shows us what a truly democratic world would look like (and just how different that world would be from the billionaire astroturf-dominated social media world)! If the popular will can achieve primacy, we'd live in a veritable paradise!
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Cory Doctorow@pluralistic@mamot.fr
It also explains how candidates like Zohran Mamdani were able to clobber the political establishment simply by a) telling people that he would do popular things; and b) convincing them that he meant it.
Suppressing popular preferences in (nominal) democracies isn't easy. It requires absolute unity of the ruling classes. Whenever the faintest crack appears in capital's unity, good policies gush out of it.
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