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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social |
We are also given no choice but to submit to governance by a remote authority, surrendering our will to people we have never met, but who nonetheless claim to speak with our voices and represent our views. We all know this is a fiction, but we have to go along with it.
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George Monbiot
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I don’t believe we should do away with representative democracy altogether, though we should improve it through proportional representation and radical campaign finance reform, both of which have been demanded here, without success, for 160 years.
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George Monbiot
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This is an 18th-century political system, designed at a time when only the richest and most powerful people could vote. It is used in the 21st century to protect capital and established power from the challenges that real democracy would present.
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