3 ways to upgrade democracy for the 21st century | Max Rashbrooke
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Published 2021-02-25
Democracy needs an update -- one that respects and engages citizens by involving them in everyday political decisions, says writer and researcher Max Rashbrooke. He outlines three global success stories that could help move democratic systems forward and protect society against the new challenges this century is already bringing.
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All Comments (21)
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This is an upgrade from the last few episodes. At least it's not a sellout marketing video for social media.
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No real change will occur until we can place an impenetrable wall between those making the laws and money from those that would be affected by those laws. We can't let those with money make the laws.
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Citizen Assembly, participatary budgeting, online consensus forming
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1. Public assembly (eg. Canada mental health ) 2. Budget discussion ( eg. Kenya) 3. Online consensus forming (India mygov)
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While this idea sounds really nice, it cannot work properly in practice unless the citizens are well educated, they are well versed in critical thinking and at the same time the outlets where information/news are coming from need to be unbiased. How do we achieve all of these?
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Democracy cannot work without an element of meritocracy (such as the UK Civil Service manned by the qualified experts in any field to guide the population and politicians). The most dangerous failing of democracy in the C21 is that there is now no direct link between the 'popular' and the 'best'.
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A person is truly optimistic only when they just don't wish the future to be better but try to make it better.
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Sharing, Truth and Peace for All.
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The biggest problem with democracy is trust. To trust you must know. To know you must have information. ACCURATE information. Sadly disinformation is the more popular one to media and internet. Try making a netbased newspaper for and by your government with all the ACCURATE information and a quick way to contact IT if you should have questions.
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Until we remove the rich and lobbyists from politics, nothing will ever change to better life for the average person.
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As a Canadian...we already do a lot of this....❤️🙏🇨🇦I feel blessed to live in a country that strives to take care of everyone.....
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In America, we can't upgrade Democracy because we don't have Democracy. This would be a dream come true.
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In the 21C, we have the following options: 1.Corporate America, 2.Authoritarian China, 3. Something else. This guy is looking for that something else, so am I.
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About the get togethers of the 100 people reflecting a people perfectly: Even if said council may consist of a composition equal to the distribution of the groups with those traits in a community/district, thereby making said composition representative of the community as a whole, this does not imply that the outcome of the work this council would provide to the community would be fair. We cannot suppose that majorities, which are almost inevitable, will choose to vote in favour of moral standards instead of those favouring themselves (those often collide). Which in turn would inevitably collude in segregation caused by majorities bettering their lifes henceforth causing impoverishment, as well as therewith coherent hierarchy, thereby diminishing every positive effect caused by such a proposal. In order to be able to make this work, clever regulation, determining how much of the council should be made up of certain groups due to many effects such as raw percentage representation in the community, good will/ Bad will against other groups (especially minorities), predicted suppression of others (determined by group size and other factors), etc., would have to be brought forth. In general though, determining who should have a say seems almost impossible to be fair in such a constellation
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I took the risk dealing with Austin on YouTube and finally end up with perfect testimony.
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Fantastic 🙏🙏🙏👍
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I believe that a change can occur but still needs a lot of improvement when it comes in including people in political decision-making. Still the ideas are not bad, but again there are certain gaps that we need to fill : 1- Commission Assembly composed of 100 people it is not a bad idea but again not every time a majority is right, and again every individual in that commission represent himself and not the people, and an idea can be appropriate for one group of people but not for the others. Again i believe that it will form a divergence.
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Interesting talk
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Implementing these ideas seems extremely difficult in context of India, which is having a huge population with no proper education. I found this video cause my sociology prof. Shared it in the class, i wonder how many other students actually came to this and understood the thing his explaining.
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