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This is really so frustrating and why populists keep winning.
Complex issues like immigration, economic inequality, or national security are framed in simple, relatable terms, like "Build a wall," "take back control," or "protect jobs".
The problem is that people don't ask any follow-up questions or other critical things like "How" and "When".
And like shown in OP, when you show a solution people go "BORING!".
We're doomed, aren't we?
We can't get anything any better with the existing system.
could we make a better system? perhaps but it would require lots of work and resources to make a way to communicate that can then extend to making the world a better place.
Like the OP, people don';t want to do lots of work. So that's why maybe some few people will have to make a way to this all to be easy for dummies
Thanks for the PDF!
In Europe the pirate has worked out a technical system, where you can introduce new ideas to a problem and people together construct and vote for a solution - forming a consensus.
I'd really like to get rid of political parties altogether, form a slim state, that needs to put into place what was worked out in a basic democratic act by the people - in exactly such a system.
But looking at how people are so easily following just populistic, simple "solutions" and don't care for the details, I've really lost trust in the general public.
I've always said, that this is an educational problem, because if people want to govern themselves, they need to be educated on the topics and not just follow some hype - else we would easily land in some idiocracy.
The idea is, that the broader the power is scattered, the more stable the system is.
And the system must reflect the society and not the system dictate how society functions.
But it seems currently every one wants just to suck big daddy's cock and be grateful for a wannabe strongman...
Depending on where you live there are lots of very normal and reliable avenues for progress, as things have always been slowly improving in democracy.