I feel like denying the existence of any amount of democracy everywhere on earth is exactly the mindset that empowers fascists and communist dictators.

It feels good to be able to simplify everything down, but concentration of wealth in market economies is a complicated issue that requires complicated solutions that the majority has been busy crafting and implementing for thousands of years as we progressed from the time of god kings to now. We have real democracies. We have means of the many peacefully controlling the few. We just need more people to participate in that system.

Where are the real democracies? The god-kings still keep on fucking kids. Why would they let voting stop them? Sure, participation is the least must-do right now, but if it worked, it wouldn’t be allowed.

Prime example Finnland. Highest tax rate on the rich in the world and also ranks as the happiest nation in earth regularly.

Lesser example is that the USA, while failing, is still in a much better position than Russia which is solely countrolled by a plutocratic oligarchy for decades.

Clearly there is a spectrum for how much or how little people control policy and wealth. There is a a battle going on between the rich and the governments built by the people.

Finland is currently run by the same oligarch network chain, vassals of Trump and his handlers, planning to use the area for nukes for the big show. Capitalists have their brown shirts in the government, and once in a while a centrist (still capitalist) party might become the biggest (next year probable), but it works in the ratchet politics method, never undoing the damage, basically a controlled opposition. Highest unemployment rate in Europe, by design. The degree of riggedness is just more hidden, even the “democracy” there isn’t able to purge or become isolated from the now rotten institutions of the world.

lmao