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Comment on Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries?

The communism ideals are great. Problem is, they historically fail when put into practice. Funny thing, it’s because of power hungry assholes. That same reason is why democracies fail, why republics fail, why monarchies fail, why theocracies fail and so on.

If only there were a pattern here that we could learn from. One person with too much power and eventually, you’ll get an asshole so mad with power they bring the whole system down and we have to start over.

The more parties, check, ballances, laws, and red tape, and the like help stave it off for longer, but nothing lasts forever. There is bo perfect system that can’t be undone by assholes.

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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I really wish the founding fathers had split the executive into a tribunal.

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- huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  In the early days, the runner up became the vice president. I think that kept things more tempered instead of the all or nothing we have now.
  
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  - HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    yeah but I would like 3 positions of relative equal power.
    
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cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Benevolent dictators can happen by accident, but never by design. A system designed to govern fairly will inevitably be abused by people who have no intention of fairness. You can place as many obstacles in their path as you wish, you can’t stop them forever and eventually they will get around them all.

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- MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s why any place with a fucking brain at minimum massively controls the assholes and at maximum puts them to death.
  
  Though when money IS everyones’ “god”, the rich and greedy and more divine than us plebs…
  
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lunatique@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The many keep allowing the few to ruin it all.

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- yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Good people don’t want the power. They want a nice easy peaceful life surrounded by loved ones. The assholes strive for power and authority. A few good people try to make a difference.
  
  Even if you tried to make a legislature out of regular citizens forced to do the work like jury duty, it would get twisted and regulated like current jury duty.
  
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