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    Other What does the Democratic party need to do in order to win back control of the government?

    Agree to an extent. Allowing an uniformed group of possibly unwilling voters to chose representatives just pushes the problem further down the pipe. Being a citizen should mean holding responsibility - the country is not there solely to serve the people, the people also need to take their part...
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    Other What does the Democratic party need to do in order to win back control of the government?

    Of course, but if we can do secure banking, travel and other government documents and share trading all online, surely we can invent a secure way to seek opinions?
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    Other What does the Democratic party need to do in order to win back control of the government?

    This raises the interesting question of a representative democracy vs a participatory one. In a small village, it can be truly participatory with all adults involved in group decisions. In ancient Greece, the Senate of all citizens (admittedly, only the men) met to agree upon common decisions...
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    Other What does the Democratic party need to do in order to win back control of the government?

    What I find interesting in the discussion of Democrats vs Republicans is the assumption that a two-party system is the most effective. In our complex world, we really struggle to hold dichotomous viewpoints (as seen by the breadth of ideas in each political party). I also wonder if a country can...
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    Taking back power from tech oligarchs

    Some useful comments here. One thought is that boycotts or "popular pressure" need to be targeted at the levers that impact those organisations. As their bottom line is financial, moral or popular concerns affect them least but changes to their profits or share price affect them much more. We...
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    Hi everyone

    I am just starting a doctorate looking at interpersonal relationships in expectation development and learning outcomes. People do matter and they do influence each other. What we seem to be seeing in the current political "discourse" is a lot of influence and expectation but very little...
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