This guy has studied democracies the world over and across several centuries. He's looked at how they form, how they dissolve, etc, and it's pretty much the dude's life's work to study this stuff empirically. His arguments should definitely be, at the very least, heard out by anybody interested in democracies and the alternatives.
@imjisooandyoucantmarrymyso7718
3 жыл бұрын
very very sharp mind. I'm also a political science student and Shapiro is excellent as always.
@johnries5593
4 жыл бұрын
I haven't seen the lecture yet and Dr. Shapiro assuredly knows this, but voter initiative has been an entrenched political institution here in the western US (especially in California, where I live) for over a century; so I think it much too late to put that particular genie back in the bottle. I would restrict it (starting with prohibiting money bills and requiring a two thirds vote to pass initiative constitutional amendments), but I wouldn't try to abolish it. I would restrict the choice in recalls to removing the office holder in question (if there is a majority for removal, a vacancy should be declared which would be filled in the usual manner). And the US is a federal republic, so political competition has always been decentralized (and should be). To an extent, this is actually a good thing if the parties are free to put forward candidates capable of appealing to the median voter in the vast majority of constituencies (even if Republicans in Hawaii end up being more liberal than Democrats in Alabama).
@davidwilkie9551
2 жыл бұрын
Money talks, so free money is freedom of speech? Darkly.
@luckyluciano6939
6 жыл бұрын
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@davidwilkie9551
2 жыл бұрын
"Poodle-dores" is the apparent inversion of intentions when only the superficial results are wanted. The same mechanism of inside-outside combinations of directions for cause-effect intention applies to effectively educated humans in a balanced political humanity. Ie policies serve humans, not just as label identify human parties. The labelling system will always be undergoing recycling, but the conic-cyclonic Reciproction-recirculation Singularity positioning, pulse-evolution human at the Centre of Time Duration Timing Conception is the bio-logical expectation of probable continuity. Complicated and messy sum-of-all-histories. Where the lecture is NOT wrong is the assessment of balanced binary-unity, ie strength in the arrangement of probabilistic correlations in quantization, ..the innate 0-1-2-3-4-etc heirachy of dominance-occurring information, (sequential flow), relies on common sense-knowledge that causes bulk coordination of activities without coercion. This means Universal Education and conscious awareness of general responsibilities.., Gaian Planetary Perspective.
@heathcliffearnshaw1403
3 жыл бұрын
Demo[ney]cracy !
@geokaryotis
6 жыл бұрын
Strong two parties are necessary for a functional democracy. However, I have a felling that such an idea is against the modern ideal of pluralism and diversity. Isn't it? Secondly, how do we know that this system is not closer to an authoritarian system than a real democratic system?
@TheZodiacz
5 жыл бұрын
Two strong parties is the total opposite of democracy. It is the smallest number of paid toadies to allow oligarchic control to occur under color of freedom.
@johnries5593
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheZodiacz Nah. One dominant party is the total opposite of democracy. The optimal number of political parties in my book is zero; but two parties strong enough to frame the debate, but not so strong as to exclude citizens who don't fit either of the rival molds from meaningful political participation is acceptable.
@MeMe-nm7jr
3 жыл бұрын
I assume you're asking about the US system and we know that ours is a democratic system because we vote, those votes count, and there's been peaceful transfers of power in every election for almost 250 years. Well, the last wasn't very peaceful at all but it was still an appropriate transfer of power given our current political system and the votes. Obviously I'm not saying our system doesn't have problems and he definitely wasn't either. It's just that he's arguing for different things than many others. At 7:57 he says that we shouldn't only look at the amount of parties as we so often do but that we should also look at the _strength_ of the parties and should strengthen ours in the US. At 27:07 he gets to some of the points that most of us have a problem with which is that the two parties don't always represent all of us but his argument is that if they were stronger, they would represent more of us more of the the time. He's arguing that things like the primaries, as one example, weaken the parties. It's an argument worth thinking about. This guy literally does nothing but empirically study politics throughout history and across the world. Also, here's a more recent video of his talking specifically about political parties, both the differences in amounts and their relevant strengths and weaknesses: kzitem.info/news/bejne/kot9tZaXfJWFdGU
@pinchebruha405
6 ай бұрын
@@johnries5593yeah don’t want to pay taxes to drive on public roads…😂
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