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Arguably the sweet spot in any representative democracy is somewhere in the middle. So the struggle of left and right ensures a balanced political landscape. Too much distribution of power ensures nothing gets done, to little and we get that dictator situation.
I know this is supposed to be "left good right bad, mkay". Let's have some balanced takes around these parts. <3
Yeah, in one of these scenarios, things don’t get done and in the other, people’s freedoms are taken.
Real difficult to decide which extreme I’d take.
And yes, I know the actual implication here is that public services fail and infrastructure isn’t as viable. But I would take free and struggling over oppressed and struggling no matter what.
If the direct reward for obeying the system was health and riches, it’d probably be a genuinely difficult choice, but that’s not the actual choice we’re being offered. They want to take your freedom and your wellbeing.
"Guys, why can't we compromise, let's find a balance with the people who want total, private control over the means by which to survive and build a society so they can personally enrich themselves from artificially created scarcity."
This is you right now.
Yeah let's not compromise and be the same assholes and become what we seek to destroy. If only we had a lefty dictator then his benevolence will make everything better. Hitler was a problem, let's to Stalin again... ;)
Cool story, thanks for highlighting you know diddly squat about political theory and alternative ideologies.
Sounds alot like more than you assume about political theory my friend.
Um... is this sweet spot in the room with us right now?
This is a presumption we make, but CIA analyses of societies as they democratize (reform their election systems to better represent the people) don't seem to slow down as much as we predicted. Perhaps the metric is misgauged much like the Laffer curve, and the sweet spot is to the left of center, somewhere that no nation has yet explored.
Ideally, as citizens have the time and energy to become civically engaged and aware of their own best interests, as information is better accessible to them, distribution of power outward can be afforded with much less slowdown.
And to be fair, progress in neoliberal states is ratcheted back by right-wing institutions such as SCOTUS, not due to the power distribution of the election system.