My Proposal for How To Achieve a Democracy
As I have previously documented, the United States is controlled by its billionaires and not by its public; we have an aristocracy not a democracy. (As I had mentioned there, “The breakthrough first study, in 2014, was brilliantly summarized and explained in a 6-minute video here.” It shows by means of graphs what the first study found. And all subsequent such empirical studies have come to the very same conclusion. The evidence is therefore, by now, clear and overwhelming, that America is an aristocracy — of wealth — NOT a democracy that authentically represents the public.)
Furthermore, a major international polling that compared in each of the individual countries the percentage of respondents who answered “Yes” to the question “Does your Government represent you, or not?” showed that in the U.S.-and-allied countries, the percentages who answered “Yes” were far lower than for the average country, and that all 11 of the lowest-scoring (or most dictatorial) countries on that list were in the U.S.-and-allied group. Who will know whether a given country is a dictatorship if the people who live there don’t know it? Will people who have never lived there know more about that? (Of course not.) And their answers to the question “‘In general, do you trust your National media?: Usually, To some extent, Not at all.” for the “Not at all” option, were higher than average for the U.S. and almost all of its allied countries. (However, residents in Afghanistan, Indonesia, and Philippines had the lowest score on that and the highest trust in their news-media. Are we, who don’t live there, better-able to answer that question for them than they are? I don’t think so.)
And all indications are that the head-of-state in the U.S. and in each of its colonies (or ‘allies’) have public-approval ratings that are far below the global average; and, not only this, but two of the countries that the U.S. Government says are dictatorships and must therefore be ‘regime’-changed — Russia and China — actually have the two highest public-approval ratings for their head-of-state, which means that the U.S. Government wants to install a dictator there (because the given target-nation’s public are extremely supportive of their head-of-state, it would have to BE a dictator). And not only that, but on 22 August 2022, I headlined “NATO-Affiliated Poll in 53 Countries Finds Chinese the Most Think Their Country Is a Democracy”. That NATO poll found 83% of the residents in China said “Yes” to “My country is democratic.” It scored #1 of the 53 nations on this. U.S. was worse than average, and was tied at #s 40&41, out of the 53 nations, with Colombia, at 49%. Right above them was Saudi Arabia, at 50%. That’s what the NATO-affiliated poll found. (For some reason, they didn’t publicize it.)
What the political ‘scientists’ understand about democracy is nothing. Though the empirical ones perform an authentic contribution by their empirical findings (such as have been mentioned here), the theoretical political ‘scientists’ (the people who are supposedly trying to UNDERSTAND what the empirical findings in their field actually mean) are still operating on the basis of the opinions of philosophers, and this is to say they’re operating on the basis of opinions INSTEAD OF on the basis of the relevant EMPIRICAL DATA (such as these that have been linked-to here).
So, the field of political science is at around the stage of development that physics was at the time of Galileo, and that biology was prior to Darwin and Mendel. I do not consider this acceptable. But the practitioners do. Even the very definition of what “democracy” means is not yet determined — that word doesn’t yet have any concrete meaning in (doesn’t yet exist in the theory of) political ‘science’, except on a philosophical — i.e., opinion-based — foundation. I greatly respect Jeffrey Sachs and his outstanding empirical works in political science; and, so, on March 31st, I emailed to him
Eric, March 31st:
Subject: A political left that’s controlled by billionaires is fake ‘left’: hypocritical nazism.
Date: March 31, 2025 at 7:27:43 PM EDT
[The opening part of that linked-to article linked to documents that showed that in the U.S. and many other countries it is not the public that control the Government via elections, such as democratic theory alleges, but instead the billionaires who control the Government — the billionaires control the Government much like in former centuries the aristocracy controlled the Government, but now they do it by using different methods. That is the problem, and here was my proposed solution to it in order to be able to produce maybe an AUTHENTIC democracy. This is not a theory but ONLY an hypothesis now, and it would need to be tested:]
I would suggest that it [selection of the U.S. President] should be done by lottery (among all adults) for the legislatures, and that those [lottery-selected] legislators would then have the power to expel from their midst any of them that a two-thirds majority of them vote to expel, and that the entire body will, by majority vote, appoint judges, and will select as the head-of-state, one among themselves who has served in the federal legislature for five years or more. There would be no term-limits, and Parties wou
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