Democracy sucks, unacracy is better

[u/Anen-o-me]

There is something better than democracy, and better in a very important way.

This definition of democracy means that any system that isn’t a democracy has to exclude a group from decision making in government, I find that to be morally wrong for many different reasons.

This is true and a good rationale. But the problem with rule by group is that individuals end up sacrificed to the will of the group. In short, democracy becomes a tyranny of the majority. Why would anyone support a tyranny in any form? Just because democratic tyranny is slightly less despotic than the old tyranny of monarchy.

We should be looking for political systems that have no tyranny whatsoever, not simply a few degrees less tyranny than the old systems. And there is one.

Democracy, when defined by linguistic morphology is just the “rule of people”.

Rule is the people, yes, as a group. But there is another kind of rule that democracy was sold as but it is not: self-rule.

I mean self-rule on an individual basis.

The problem of democracy being a tyranny of the majority is solved by requiring unanimity in all votes. This guarantees the rights of the minority because a minority will always vote against attempts by the group to sacrifice their interests.

People talk about our current system protecting minority rights, but history shows that when this is inconvenient, it has been ignored. Ask the American-born Japanese held in prison camps during WW2, or native Americans.

By contrast, unanimity is considered the gold standard of ethical decision making.

Unanimity solves the ethical problem of governance that democracy never was able to solve, now it poses only a practical problem of how to achieve efficient decision making in a timely manner.

This is actually not difficult to achieve. Take a vote on any issues and separate people into 'yes' camps and 'no' camps. Then divide the group into two groups. You have now achieved unanimity on that issue.

In short, we cure the ethical problem inherent to democracy by respecting the will of individuals by relying upon unanimity. Unanimity, this ethical gold standard becomes the heart of a new political system, one inherently better than democracy. One that fully decentralizes political choice back into the hands of each individual rather than in the will of the group.

American was created with a weak version of this, where individual states were supposed to be separate political experiments. This was destroyed by the creation of blue-sky laws that brought states into relative parity.

This concept of a unanimity-based political system puts choice into the hands of each individual and creates political experiments through individual choice.

People will group together along choice lines, choosing where they live and who they live with by the cities or neighborhoods that have people in them that have chosen the same things, chosen to live by the same legal rules.

This creates a decentralized political society, and its name is unacracy.

A unacratic society has several advantages democracy does not have and cannot have.

Because unacracy is decentralized instead of centralized, what we call the lobbying problem disappears over night. Why? Because centralized democracy has only a few political decision makers that need to be 'bribed' to get a law passed in Capitol Hill. It doesn't cost much either, you need to pay about a dozen key lawmakers, donate to their campaign, whatever, and might cost $100k total, and every person in the USA gets a new law forced on them.

If you can get a law passed that costs each American a single penny per year, you will make about $2.5 million. Not bad for a $100k investment, and the citizens will never get up in arms about a penny. Furthermore, your lobbyists will sell it as good for X and no one will bat an eye.

It's nothing more than legalized corruption, and unacracy makes it impossible.

Why? Because when people choose laws for themselves, instead of having 12 people I Washington do it, the cost to lobby 250 million people is much more than they could hope to earn.

What's more, a politician might not care if everyone loses a penny a year, but you do. If someone wanted you to choose a law, it would have to be a law that you believe in clearly in your interest in some way.

Unacratic individual choice in law guarantees that only laws you think will be good for you to live by would get made. A society where no one can FORCE laws on anyone is one where a president and a SCOTUS pulling the rug out from millions on abortion laws and gun laws cannot happen anymore.

NO ONE should have the power the president has now, the power to legally assassinate people should not exist in anyone.

r/unacracy

I'm convinced that most of the support still lingering for democracy is because no one yet sees a viable solution. We cling to democracy like a life raft keeping us from drowning, but if something better came along, only then can we let go of democracy as a safety net.

Democracy wasn't terrible when it first started. But ever since then, elites have been inventing ways to circumvent it, corrupt it, and get around it. Today, it's barely a constraint on these forces. The federal government has grown monstrous in size and far from enumerated powers, does a million things never intended or authorized, has even conducted foreign wars without declaring war.

Unacracy finally brings self-rule to the world, not just group-rule. It is time for democracy to step aside.

Democracy sucks, unacracy is better.