What alternative ways can you think of to handle making legislation and passing laws that would negate the increasingly polarized political climate that is happening in more and more countries?

  • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Soviet Democracy. Workers elect delegates from among themselves, who can then be subject to instant recall elections at any time. Remove the “career politician” aspects from government.

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      2 months ago

      Dunno, we’ve never seen anything go wrong with the Soviet system of representation before have we?

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        Definitely became overly-beaurocratized after WWII, but was generally far more democratic than Capitalist states