A surprise presidential win for Poland's conservative Karol Nawrocki signals potential clashes lie ahead with the pro-European government’s reform agenda.
See, this is why I STRONGLY believe something like Lemmy is essential for an actual Democracy to function. Of course, not the only thing, we also need a rethink of our educational systems, a complete restructuring of our priorities and principles as a species, and these are just to name a few.
But true Democracy cannot exist unless the consensus is granular, as well as educated and rational. The Forum is necessary.
But we still have a lot of rethinking to do beyond just that, otherwise we’ll be right back where we started. We can’t have a Democracy centered around anything other than its people (i.e. not fucking Capitalism).
Edit: and it needs to function primarily toward nurturing people who can adequately carry said Democratic process! We should never have do our shopping while starving, so to speak, and we should be educated in such a way as to understand what and why we’re consuming, with adequate transparency to allow us that understanding, etc.
See, this is why I STRONGLY believe something like Lemmy is essential for an actual Democracy to function. Of course, not the only thing, we also need a rethink of our educational systems, a complete restructuring of our priorities and principles as a species, and these are just to name a few.
But true Democracy cannot exist unless the consensus is granular, as well as educated and rational. The Forum is necessary.
But we still have a lot of rethinking to do beyond just that, otherwise we’ll be right back where we started. We can’t have a Democracy centered around anything other than its people (i.e. not fucking Capitalism).
Edit: and it needs to function primarily toward nurturing people who can adequately carry said Democratic process! We should never have do our shopping while starving, so to speak, and we should be educated in such a way as to understand what and why we’re consuming, with adequate transparency to allow us that understanding, etc.