We already know that democracy as we know it simply doesn't work. We also know that concentration of money and power doesn't bode well for a functioning democracy, but how exactly does money influence the democratic process? Enter Lawrence Lessig, as he explains what Tweedism is.
source: Wikimedia CommonsWilliam M. Tweed: "As long as I count the Votes, what are you going to do about it? Say?"
This short post is kind of a follow-up on my previous article "Myths Of Our Economy: You Live In A Democracy", so if you haven't read that yet, please do :-) I'll leave the more elaborate explanation with Larry Lessig in the video at the end of this post, but in short Tweedism is the procedure by which a very small group of the population get to nominate the candidates in any election. "I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating" is a famous quote by William M. Tweed who invented this anti-democratic process.
To find out how just 0.02% of the American population decides who the rest of us get to vote on, and to hear his solution to fix this, listen carefully to Larry Lessig's TED talk titled "Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it."
I hope you don't mind too much the shorter post today; you all, my fellow Steemians, followers and readers are the ones that keep me inspired to write these posts; sharing our thoughts and opinions is what keeps Steemit interesting and also what democracy is really about. But, like I said once before: time and circumstances don't always permit the long format I much prefer, and you have come accustomed to. From now on I'll leave a short list of my latest articles in the tail of my blog-posts to keep you entertained (hopefully) until my next article. I got this tip from @movingman, who has a great blog about true independence. Go check him out!
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