: There was a time when oppressive regimes had to kick you in the teeth to get your submission now we just roll out the ballots.: Can anyone tell me why we vote for parties that dont represent us but represent corporates and do so willfully?
: I mean it's got to be obvious I never voted 'Labour Party' I voted Coca Cola!
: Real democracy would be impossible because every citizen would be consulted on every aspect of the economy etc. vie a questionnaire or something. Not every citizen understands politics never mind economics!
Simple. By instating 'economic democracy', ie. the collective ownership of production facilities by the people, the representative democracy is no longer necessary. Politics is the science of distributing goods and wealth to the people *), and if the people do that themselves it is as a system no longer required.
*) for example, Conservatism seeks to distribute wealth according to the status of the work the people do, liberalism seeks to distribute to whomever may take it and socialism seeks to distribute it more or less evenly.
None.
