neither representative nor democratick
It's a passage from Pericles' Funeral Oration, and a fundamental, foundational text on democracy and constitutions. I don't think you should vote in any referendum about democracy or constitutions.
Not how to bump a thread.
Ok . I won’t.
To be honest, in the future all funeral orations will be no more than 140 characters.
I was at a funeral a couple of weeks ago where people were taking selfies (not at the graveside: at the reception, but still, it made me feel old and adrift without a compass on a sea of modern morality).To be honest, in the future all funeral orations will be no more than 140 characters.
280To be honest, in the future all funeral orations will be no more than140characters.
no, you have, and can use a compass, moral or otherwise.....the others will just keep going til their satnav tells them to stop
The problem with this sort of stuff is that most people don’t read it & yet they still need affordable housing. So what to do?
What sort of stuff? An analysis of the anti-democratic nature of liberalism? I don't see why people reading that thread or not makes any different to fighting for affordable housing.
The political theory in your thread in the link. You know perfectly well what I am getting at. I know plenty of people spending half their income on housing. I know for a fact they would not be interested in reading the stuff in your thread. Not because they are stupid but because they could not see the slightest relevance of it to their lives. So can you answer my question. How do we fix the housing crisis in the UK?
This is a complete non sequiter. How does people having an interest in political theory or not make it more or less difficult to fix the housing crisis in the UK? There's no connection there, unless you have some sort of nonsense vanguardism in mind, that the people need to be led to the 'correct' way of thinking.
I don't get this. Why does redsquirrel starting a thread discussing something (anything) on a bulletin board mean anything other than he started a discussion on a bulletin board?
You appear to be saying that your interest in the type of politics that you post about has no relevance at all to what is happening in the UK right now. Is that correct? I was under the impression that what you post on this thread had some sort of relevance to the subject of the thread & that you had some sort of idea of the political direction you would like to see the UK taking?
Because he linked to it on this thread suggesting it had some sort of relevance to this thread.
No
It does. Have you not read the last couple of pages with A380 arguing the type of rubbish outlined on the thread I linked?
It does have relevance to the discussion on this thread. It was directly related to the suggestion that people be tested for competence before being allowed to vote in referendums such as the Brexit referendum. So it was relevant to the discussion occurring at the time.
What I was trying to get across was that plenty of links to left wing theory are posted on this & other threads. There is plenty of slagging of posters who are perceived to be centrist Blairite neoliberals etc. None of this seems offer an achievable solution to the problems facing the UK today. If I am missing something here then probably the vast majority of ordinary people at the lower end of the income scale are missing it too because they do not read the sort of political stuff that is regularly posted in links on here.
Maybe you need to do a thread specifically dedicated to this question.
No need. They can post it on this thread.
I don't think it's "leftwing theory" to say that it's a bad idea to introduce competency tests before people are allowed to vote. And I don't think it's obscure or academic-y to say the suggestion comes from a worryingly anti-democratic tendency. Quite the reverse, in fact!
It's not like there's a widespread contempt of politicians nor that part of the reason why many people voted to leave the EU was because they felt that it was some remote, undemocratic body.
