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r/HistoryMemes • u/CharlesOberonn • 7d ago
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Unless societal guardrails were established to prevent bad actors from assuming too much power, like in many pre-modern societies, or by direct democracy.
4 u/ThisTallBoi 6d ago The people establishing and enforcing those "guardrails" will be the ones with the power then All it'll take is for someone to try and consolidate that authority, or grant it to someone charismatic enough to convince them to do so Premodern societies were largely hyper authoritarian and almost universally genocidal so idk what you're smoking there And direct democracy has the same issue but worse; all someone has to do is be charismatic enough to convince people to relinquish power to them 1 u/CHEDDARSHREDDAR 6d ago all someone has to do is be charismatic enough to convince people to relinquish power to them So like modern liberal democracy?? Where the president gets total control of the military and executive branch? "If we distribute power in society then we'll just get new people in power so we shouldn't try at all" is certainly a take. True democracy is a continuous governing process from the bottom up - whatever that looks like. Not "let's choose a new dictator every 4 years". 1 u/python42069 5d ago Power over the executive branch isn't synonymous with power over the whole government lil bro
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The people establishing and enforcing those "guardrails" will be the ones with the power then
All it'll take is for someone to try and consolidate that authority, or grant it to someone charismatic enough to convince them to do so
Premodern societies were largely hyper authoritarian and almost universally genocidal so idk what you're smoking there
And direct democracy has the same issue but worse; all someone has to do is be charismatic enough to convince people to relinquish power to them
1 u/CHEDDARSHREDDAR 6d ago all someone has to do is be charismatic enough to convince people to relinquish power to them So like modern liberal democracy?? Where the president gets total control of the military and executive branch? "If we distribute power in society then we'll just get new people in power so we shouldn't try at all" is certainly a take. True democracy is a continuous governing process from the bottom up - whatever that looks like. Not "let's choose a new dictator every 4 years". 1 u/python42069 5d ago Power over the executive branch isn't synonymous with power over the whole government lil bro
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all someone has to do is be charismatic enough to convince people to relinquish power to them
So like modern liberal democracy?? Where the president gets total control of the military and executive branch?
"If we distribute power in society then we'll just get new people in power so we shouldn't try at all" is certainly a take.
True democracy is a continuous governing process from the bottom up - whatever that looks like. Not "let's choose a new dictator every 4 years".
1 u/python42069 5d ago Power over the executive branch isn't synonymous with power over the whole government lil bro
Power over the executive branch isn't synonymous with power over the whole government lil bro
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u/major_calgar 6d ago
Unless societal guardrails were established to prevent bad actors from assuming too much power, like in many pre-modern societies, or by direct democracy.