Elections, the fossil fuel of democracy. This integrity body wouldn’t even need to exist, if it wasn’t for…

Elections, the fossil fuel of democracy. This integrity body wouldn’t even need to exist, if it wasn’t for popularity-based politics. All the worst actions and inactions in politics are popularity-based. Imagine raising kids or teaching a class using…/1 https://t.co/RPSloaAazM

…popularity as the basis of what you do. It’s laughable. And yet for the most important jobs in the land, it’s everything. Like many I was disgusted with the next Albo capitulation yesterday to letting Covid rip. But ultimately popularity-based politics, populism, elections,…/2

…will always lead you here. Currying favour becomes the entire system, not just the corrupt part. A singular obsession with being liked, whether by voters or donors or the media. As I often say, society is now a giant high school, because we all remember the economy of…/3

…being liked that drives high schools. Social media, the adult infrastructure of high school, even explicitly runs on the economy of ‘likes’. I really don’t think people see how deeply populism infects everything. Get rid of elections and all of this goes away. /end