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organicAnt  ·  4081 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Greeces democracy in danger, warns Demos, as Greek reservists call for coup

I would say the responsibility lies mainly in the politicians. Supposedly we vote them into office to be responsible representatives of our interests. If now we're paying for the mistakes some of them did while in government I think there should be some accountability to be had. That would be the expectation in any other job that I know of. Ok, maybe except banking.





cgod  ·  4081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The accountability in politics lies in the voting booth. Democracy seems at least somewhat broken but what else do we have?

NotPhil  ·  4081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Democracy seems at least somewhat broken but what else do we have?

Some Italian city-states used demarchy (policy juries); the Quakers and kibbutzim used parpolity or sociocracy (cellular democracy); and many pre-historical societies used kritarchy (policy judges).

There are, of course, many other options, but I thought these were some of the more interesting ones.

cgod  ·  4080 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Don't kid yourself, people have a lot of evil and greed, there is no system that is run my be men that won't mirror our nature.

humanodon  ·  4081 days ago  ·  link  ·  
cgod  ·  4080 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Of course THUNDERDOME!