Monday, September 21, 2020

The sanest and most humane way out of the fall of our democracies

I believe in working within established political traditions, but as we put up with the foolish and dangerous political antics of politicians like Ocasio-Cortez, Pelosi and Schumer, I sometimes think about how when America was formed the right to vote extended only to men who owned property, then was added white men regardless of property ownership, then nonwhite men, then women, then every American citizen could vote. I wonder if we would be better off now if the right to vote extended only to men who owned property? In democracies the people tend to be easily swayed and bribed by demagogues, the population is prone to irrationality and can be morally blind. But I know we have to work with the system we have.

My belief and hope is that most of the problems we are having with our democracy would fade away if we could form an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, which could deal best with most of the social problems we have. Ethnostates could allow the deep natural love of ones own group and culture to continue evolving and improving, protected by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states. And we could retain our representative democracy.

It's the sanest and most humane way I know of out of the fall of our democracies. 

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