Setting aside for the moment the criteria for voting, and presuming for a moment that representatives are more valuable than direct democracy (admittedly false) if representatives (jurors) in parliaments were to exist, what would we require for criteria for office?
Source date (UTC): 2020-12-29 18:04:14 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343981164265168898
The purpose of a parliament (parley, negotiate) is to serve as a jury for the initiatives of the state (monarchy, cabinet, bureaucracy). The division of labor between competency (the state) and market (parliament). It is not to operate the state – they lack competence.
Source date (UTC): 2020-12-29 17:21:46 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343970477077880832
1. Sportsman > Soldier > Officer > Statesman
2. Friend > Husband > Father > Politician > Statesman
3. Craftsman > Entprepreneur > Industrialist > Statesman
Source date (UTC): 2020-12-29 17:11:37 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343967923828903937
RT @LukeWeinhagen: The cost of universal democracy is limits.
Without limits all the virtues we hope to embody and to leverage to strengt…
Source date (UTC): 2020-12-29 17:06:34 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343966655328739339
RT @ThruTheHayes: @curtdoolittle THE INTOLERANCE OF TOLERANCE DOCTRINE
The tolerance doctrine requires you be maximally intolerant of anyt…
Source date (UTC): 2020-12-29 16:59:45 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343964938348466183
1. The average imbecile regardless of political preference, bias, and instinct, seeks an authoritarian government, whether marxist or fascist anything in between under the presumption that ‘it hasn’t been tried enough’ as a proxy for ‘I would do it better my way’. …
Source date (UTC): 2020-12-29 16:58:58 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343964740142460933
For all his understanding of political history, Francis Fukuyama has a very poor understanding of economics and he has an unhealthy obsession with democracy. An empowered government is proven more effective, yes, but when limited by monarchy and natural law – not by votes.
Source date (UTC): 2020-12-29 16:48:45 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343962170116214786
Again, this is simply a problem of scale. Democracy functions as the means of selecting priorities among people with common interests. That means it’s for small heterogeneous polities.
Argue the right problem: we are heterogeneous and large and have no common interest
Source date (UTC): 2020-12-29 01:52:09 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343736534743322626
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one can say that monarchies select better priorities and likely be correct. that does not distinguish the difference between monopoly, majority, and markets.
Source date (UTC): 2020-12-29 01:43:25 UTC
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This is non rational. Scarcity: Priority required. Majority for homogeneity with similar interests, markets for heterogeneity with dissimilar interests.
Source date (UTC): 2020-12-29 01:42:35 UTC
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