"Representative" Democracy in a State of Advanced Decomposition

21/07/2020
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It is increasingly evident that the myth of "representative" or "delegating democracy" as some call it, is in a state of advanced decomposition. Said democracy, where that citizens are periodically called upon to choose between different names that appear on the ballots and choose who they believe—after having suffered brainwashing during the election campaign—who will be the people who will best represent their interests and opinions, delegating in them—without limitation or some subsequent control—the power to decide on everything that may affect in one way or another their own existence.

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