Every election cycle - actually, we're well into the Era of the Perpetual Campaign, but that's a different rant - anyway, every election cycle for at least a good 35 years, we hear the same crap: "We need the government to run like a business". This is the dumbest fuckin' nonsense imaginable.
Think about any business you've ever owned or worked for. Can you tell me, with even the tiniest kernel of honesty, that that business was operated as a democracy? Think of the lightest, fluffiest management you've ever worked under; did they put their policies up for a vote? Good management always talks about "empowering our people" and "soliciting input" on some of the more important issues, but let's be real clear; what's going on is that you're being invited to agree with decisions that have already been made, and/or decisions that will be implemented when the "labor climate is a little more receptive"; no matter what they are, and no matter how they affect you, these decisions are not yours to make. Your participation in these decisions is always post facto.
Looking for proof? You find a hundred people who've worked for any private company maybe 3-5 years, and I'll do the same. We'll ask them all this question: "Have you ever been in a meeting (or in an argument with your boss) debating company policy, where the final pronouncement on the subject has been, 'Yeah well, this is no democracy'?" I'll pay you for every "No" answer, and you pay me for every time somebody says, "Shit, that's all we ever fucking hear any more."
A business is Top-Down and Authoritarian. It's run by Powerful Elites, chosen by other Powerful Elites, who form a Central Planning Committee that sets policy and issues commands in order to make the company do whatever Ownership wants it to do.
Are you sure that's what you want your government to look like?
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