Voting actually works
Voting works.
How do you think commies got welfare?
Because politicians need their votes.
Why you have laws against polygamy?
Because most poor men that can’t get many women vote in favor of monogamy. Many ugly women also vote against transactional sex being legal because they envy pretty women that can make money easily.
Why Israel got lots of aids? Because jews vote in blocks and good at lobbying.
And democracy, while not perfect, solves a certain function.
In monarchy the king is paid too well. The peasants can outnumber the one king and just kill the king or feudal Lords like French Revolution. Or we can all obey the law and have that one king oppress the people like free state of Congo.
In democracy the winner is majority (of used to be men). So it’s more stable.
Better government can exist. Dubai is very prosperous. But it has state religions to keep people in line.
Liechesten is rich as fuck. But it’s a principality. Singapore is dictatorship. Usually the most free and prosperous regions are small territories governed like business with clear shareholders.
I myself favor private cities and turn democratic cities into private cities owned or rented by it’s voters.
Private cities can work like Prospera. But there aren’t enough shareholders in to fight majority of commies in Honduras. Even though Prospera is awesome it’s so easy for hordes of commies to simply outvote Prospera.
Armies and voters get things done. Ideologies that bring prosperity, like capitalism, need support from large number of shareholders for the ideology to be strong.
The fact that large number of communist and religious fundamentalists can influence our life is not necessarily the flaw of democracy. People near you always have power over you. They can commit crime. They can force their will and their unlibertarians sense of moral terrorism and riots.
Right to vote is like a steam hole so the whole kettle don’t blow up.
George Floyd kill himself. But it’s not voting that destroy cities. It’s riots.
If you do not want to be influenced or governed by statists, you either have borders keep statists away, or limit gun ownership to only say freedom loving people. But that’s tricky. Having borders and prohibiting guns are in a sense statism too. Also what counts as statist is often vague.
Just be practical. Look at what you can do. Start from your self. Start now. Start small. .
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