What if saving democracy is as simple as tapping your screen? Make Democracy Offensive™!
I recently listened to Jen Psaki describe her vision of what a modern progressive movement and leader should be and sound like. She did this at Crooked Con but unfortunately for some reason it seems impossible to get the talking heads to simply ask us for help and ideas, why is that?
Arthur Schopenhauer said “ The task is not to look and see what no one else sees, but rather to see what everyone else sees and to think what no one else is thinking “
Why not ask the world for ideas? Why not think of new ideas no one else is thinking of?
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Make Democracy Offensive™!
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If anyone remembers, r/The_Donald … its essentially describing what that subreddit did to Reddit during the 2016 campaign.
The difference between than and now, is control of the internet and ideological loyalties. I don’t deny the internet is a valuable tool that shouldn’t be ignored, but in order to build the kind of trust needed to make the internet a system people will trust and engage in honestly and pragmatically, control needs to be taken out of the hands of the people who, like the IRGC in Iran did given the chance, will shut the internet off (as they just kind of did with TikTok, which is wrong and I don’t even like TikTok) to take out dissidents.
We’re probably not as close to that as I’m making it out to be but we’re also close enough that it matters. Peter Thiel and Elon Musk , and the rest of them, need to have their address changed to skidrow – just because they aren’t personally committing violence, doesn’t mean they aren’t culpable for the increase in violent crackdowns against constitutional rights.
In many cases what they enable with their control of technology, which also means they have financial systems and other important pillars of a functioning society in a bind, is far worse and more widespread- but because they control the internet, they can control the narrative.
I bring these points up because living in a relatively wealthy but also red-pill area of the country, it’s like I’m talking to someone from another planet sometimes. With digital democracy comes digital censorship, digital segregation, and all the other fun things that we passed laws or wrote into the constitution against.
I think this is exactly the right fear to surface, and it’s where the conversation usually stops too early. The danger isn’t “digital” democracy, it’s privatized digital power. What r/The_Donald showed wasn’t citizen democracy online, it was what happens when platforms with opaque incentives control discourse at scale.
There are real-world counterexamples that matter here. In Estonia, civic systems are public infrastructure open, auditable, and citizen-led and they’ve reduced costs and corruption while increasing trust. In Barcelona, Decidim isn’t owned by a corporation; it’s open-source, and when citizens propose or vote on policies, the city government is legally required to respond. In Taiwan, anyone including teenagers can force public engagement through join.gov.tw once support thresholds are met.
The key difference is who controls the system. Digital democracy fails when it’s run by Musk/Thiel-style gatekeepers. It works when it’s treated like roads or courts: transparent, publicly governed, and hard to shut off without accountability.
The irony is that avoiding digital civic infrastructure because of censorship fears leaves us more exposed to narrative control by private platforms. The question isn’t whether democracy goes online it already has. The question is whether citizens build their own democratic infrastructure, or leave it to people whose incentives are fundamentally anti-democratic.
agreed, i wasnt trying to shut the conversation down or say its impossible, I just wanted to highlight what we’re up against. r/The_Donald, was essentially an online insurgency, partially organic, partially manipulated by algorithms and bots.
One of my closest friends on the internet, who has long since seen the error of his ways, participated in that bs in 2016 (didnt know him until 2019), and he in fact didnt admit that to me until 2 or 3 years ago. Because of how embarrassed he felt about it, which at least to me, is a good sign and shows people can grow. They preyed on the gamer community with the highest concentration of lonely losers (objectively), and turned them into far right shitheads.
nothing says the reverse cant be done, however there must be a proper accounting and focused actions of what roadblocks lie ahead, as well as plans to deal with them. I ultimately think America is too “freedom-pilled” to accept Fascism, even the people who seemed to be rhetorically OK with it. You can kind of feel this vibe if you ever interacted with any trumpers pre-2nd presidency, they’re mighty quiet about all the things they were bitching about that they claimed trump was going to fix.
I’m sure there will be attempts to label your idea as “communist” , since communist seems to be the go to scare word that has notoriously controlled American thought, so that’s another thing to think about.
This could all be moot if Trump face plants so badly that the smoke and mirror economy is exposed and things need to be rebuilt from the ground up, but I think art this point I can say for sure that we have alot of explaining to the world of why they should ever trust us again.
Good ideas my friend
TUSOE, thank you so much for your comments, but you made a mistake. This is not an idea, this is the future of democracy. Throughout history, democracy, always dies, on Jan 1 I made my first “ resolution “ in 40 years. We will not stop until the whole world is discussing the power and potential of online citizen lead democracy in our modern world. Horace Mann said “ be ashamed to die without having won some victory for humanity!” I will be damned if I will be a part of the first generation in history that refuses to launch the next brave bold version of freedom and democracy just like every generation throughout humanity has whenever they’re democracy failed or died. “Democracy is Dead… Long Live Citizen Led Democracy!” just wait until you see what happens next Wednesday😎
I watched thar elon musk at that big financial thing the other day talk about how he wants conscientious out into the universe….all that shit… and who actually wants to live on mars? What a drag of a life that would be as a human….. and its his obsession…..so our tax money goes to all these companies he has so he can live in his fantasy world. Its just insanity
Totally hear you and you’re not wrong to question it. There’s something deeply broken about pouring public money into billionaire escape fantasies while people on Earth can’t afford housing, healthcare, or dignity. “Saving consciousness” sounds lofty, but abandoning the only livable planet we have isn’t progress. It’s avoidance. Democracy should decide our priorities, not the obsessions of a few subsidized tech emperors. The future isn’t Mars… it’s fixing home, together.
Breaking and the re-imagining democracy comes from the most broken of places. Take 1945 Germany as an example of rewriting the rules after horrible conditions. Kim Wihle and Marc Elias were on Democracy Docket today discussing Germany’s first rule in their new guiding principles. The German’s codified compassion and acceptance before anything else. Now that is some big re-imagining.