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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (176186)	8/12/2021 4:01:41 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220261

How well democracy "scales"... is a function of the same series in dependencies in how anything scales... 1.. How the aggregation function works... 2. How well the rules as structured work (or not) to correct errors enabled in result of aggregation... 3. How well the rules are complied with, in good faith... and 4. How well (or not) errors in function are discovered, and functional corrections applied to fix 2., and 3. A democracy of two doesn't scale at all... if you're an idiot and I won't put up with it ? Tolerance of difference (and, even more) tolerance of disagreement are required... as a part of good faith. In the U.S., it is accepted as a known, in step 1., that democracy doesn't work... and is both self destructive, destructive of others, and wildly dangerous, with a tendency to be short-lived, and with particularly unfortunate failure modes... But, democracy has real value... almost all of which is tied in to the prior post about truth functions operating only when debate is allowed... and not operating all at when it is not. You can't actually have a democracy... when there is no open debate... Where there is good faith... open debate enhances truth telling... and truth discovery... and policy more firmly based in truth is likely to be more functional and contribute survival value. Where it is lacking, the failure imposed is in step 1., as the aggregation function fails without it... even in the democracy of two. Subversion of democracy generally proceeds by fostering lies and criminality and using them in disruption of good faith... That's true whether the lies and criminality fostered are those of Wall Street... or that of BLM / Antifa mis-characterizing race and fostering rioting... or that in disrupting faith in elections with the practice of frauds... If the U.S. were a democracy... it would have failed already... That it isn't a democracy... and isn't likely to be subject to that sort of failure as if it were... makes the U.S. and its lack of failure, paired with its evolution enabling no expectation of good faith... into a much larger risk to others than it is to itself... The meme in an external threat being fabricated to be used to artificially foster internal consensus... wrongly assumes that there is no such external threat that is real... or that the unity resulting from addressing it... correctly... has mostly cathartic external impacts ?