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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

Carl and Harry discuss how ‘Elections Are Bad for Democracy’.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Carl and Harry discuss how ‘Elections Are Bad for Democracy’.

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0:00.0

So the New York Times has been coming out with some interesting opinion pieces recently.

0:04.2

Are you about to call them based?

0:05.7

No.

0:06.7

You are, aren't you?

0:07.7

No.

0:08.7

You're literally this closed calling them based.

0:10.7

No.

0:11.7

Because you've been sat on right wing Twitter for too long. I can tell Harry. No, it's because I've been observing the system as it works and thinking to my... Marinating in right-wing Twitter, yeah, carry on. Marinating in sensible ideas, correct? I'm not saying

0:24.8

I'm not saying not sensible ideas. I can just read your mind. And listen no, it's just

0:28.6

interesting to see that the way that people have been analyzing the system,

0:33.4

myself included being that democracy is not necessarily

0:37.6

as advertised a system of political elections

0:40.5

where you get the people to put votes in for representatives that they choose and then they get

0:46.4

put into office and then they govern on the basis of what their voters wanted them to do when they got in there.

0:51.6

It's more a system whereby America gets to

0:55.1

bully the rest of the world and a more more a set of precepts and ideas that

1:00.1

the elite that we have in charge at the moment hold and just call democracy.

1:03.7

You could call it progressives, you could call it leftism, you could call it any sort of communism,

1:09.0

all sorts of name, they call it our democracy.

1:12.0

And it doesn't actually have anything to do with elections

1:14.3

because no matter who you vote in apart from maybe one or two exceptions you're

1:18.3

going to get different variations of the same flavor. I actually think that this is because they're clever enough to know that I right so

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