Is authoritarianism winning, or is democracy just failing to deliver? Communications strategist Sally Kohn lays out how democracy has evolved before and why it must evolve again, into what she calls “Democracy 3.0” — a version that finally shares power and opportunity equally. “We the people demand that our politics and our economy work way better for us,” says Kohn. (Recorded at TED Democracy Philadelphia on June 13, 2026)
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@harrypearle9781
August 17, 2026 at 12:52 pm
WE flips to ME (and vice versa) Democratic MESSAGING SUX!
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Great, talk, but we need MESSAGING REPEATED over and over to reach average VOTERS NOW
(Sally, let me suggest MESSAGING CONTESTS, open to all, to find what really WAKES UP VOTERS, NOW)
@naetuir
August 17, 2026 at 1:11 pm
Discredited at “far-right extremists”.
@tbur8901
August 17, 2026 at 1:11 pm
One of the problems is that democracy does not guarantee the best decisions but more often sour compromises, I think what’s also needed is a better mechanism to come to agreements and workable solutions within a reasonable timetable and a solid financial frame against overspending. *
But first of all agreement on what a best decision actually is, socially, economically, relatively .. desired outcome ?
Realistically the US could – for instance – completely scrap healthcare from the budget to delete the deficit, but something would have to take it’s place like a 100% solidarity based care system with the wealthy paying their share instead of buying planes, yachts and toy cars ( just rent them while using it right ? Makes much more sense 🙂
Or a system of dividends like trust funds to cover healthcare costs per individual, tax-free but untouchable so money could never be spent on anything other than non-insurable & high cost care. Corporations would once profitable allocate a certain amount of stock for this purpose.
Don’t know if the numbers work but wouldn’t that make America great again ?
Just thinking aloud 🙂
* ( like a 3% GDP max deficit, and a 3% interest on government bonds, which would give clarity in future expenses, make government more trustworthy and any deviations would only open the way to excesses, so no ).
@harrypearle9781
August 17, 2026 at 1:24 pm
Again, MESSAGING, MESSAGING with WARNINGS.
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Endless RAMBLING by Democrats can’t compete with REPEATED MESSAGING by Trump and the Right
(Again, I suggest some form of MESSAGING Competition, tested on sample voters, now, before elections)
@Robert-u7y6f
August 17, 2026 at 1:25 pm
@Robert-u7y6f
Hmmh … i don’t know if democracy had / has really a priority in the US … i guess greed for money was and is the whole vision of this country … just think back on the Gilded Age with the Robber Barons in the Senate and bribing everybody else needed … i can not see a moral from 1900 until now 🙁i think the vision of France … liberte, egalite and fraternite is more honest than the USA.
@I_am_romeants
August 17, 2026 at 1:30 pm
Imagine working for what you earn… terrible philosophy. We should do it the way Cuba does it, I can’t wait to live off a bag of rice and some chicken for the month!
Maybe try not burning every bridge you come across, honoring your father and mother, treating others as you would like to be treated, working hard even if you don’t like what you do, telling the truth, not committing crimes… its not rocket science. I mean this entire video is patronizing considering the very platform the speaker is speaking on was founded on the ideology of capitalism – you wouldn’t have cameras or speakers or air conditioning or the internet if you didn’t have capitalism because technological advancement is tied to incentive based thinking – you reap what you sow.
I worked in restaurants for years broker than broke working 80-100hr weeks until I had the bravery and heart to commit to something else- now I make 175k a year and have a family and a good life. It all started with taking accountability and believing in myself. Anything is possible in this country, if you want it enough you will find a way. Sounds cliche’ but I’m living proof.
Socialism is good on paper but always turns into a few powerful people taking everything from the people- at least that’s what history has taught us. Governmental dependency also breeds people who don’t want to work, or people who won’t work hard, because if everyone is getting paid the same why would I break a sweat working hard if Jim does half as much all day?
If you don’t create an environment based on incentive, you will end up with mediocre or poor work which snowballs to everything else. Imagine the same level of professionalism as the cashier who’s high forgets to put your order in, getting paid the same as a doctor responsible for keeping people alive. If they were paid the same, you’d end up with mediocrity across the board.
Anyway, that’s my take on it. Work hard and fight against Communistic ideologies!
@KristianDennett
August 17, 2026 at 3:25 pm
@I_am_romeants visit China, then come back and comment lol. America is so blind to how they’re manipulated to be happy about being used and abused and pitted against each other. Communism creates beautiful landscapes where the people flourish and 100% of people succeed not just the top 5%
@I_am_romeants
August 17, 2026 at 4:46 pm
@KristianDennettvisit? Or live? Oh I forgot to mention, slavery is also a great way to build great cities and technologies. Just ask the Chinese. Today.
@schmonzo42
August 17, 2026 at 1:57 pm
Economic inequality is a problem of capitalism not democracy
@_soupnazi
August 17, 2026 at 2:26 pm
My thought exactly
@EmilioYero
August 17, 2026 at 2:46 pm
You’re free to leave capitalism and start living in North Korea, and don’t forget before leaving give all your possessions to the community. But remember that that will be your last free choice.
@_soupnazi
August 17, 2026 at 3:28 pm
@EmilioYero because capitalism is all about equality
@Underoverrated
August 17, 2026 at 5:05 pm
You’re right, but I think the speaker means it causes people to doubt all institutions, and people turn towards authoritarianism. If we had no one homeless, and everyone could afford healthy food, we’d be thriving, but capitalism says no no no, we need to suck them marrow out of every struggling person
@JERRY666UNITY
August 17, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Without even watching this video, I’m going to say capitalism is the biggest threat to democracy 🙂↔️
@mandy2tomtube
August 17, 2026 at 2:21 pm
It’s Merica. We’s Pirates now! 🏴☠️🇺🇸🏴☠️
Pirates don’t have friends
@Zerobob26
August 17, 2026 at 2:25 pm
I agree, but didn’t hear any tangible realistic solutions. A Universal Basic Income funded by a Robot Tax would solve a lot of problems. Look into it.
@mandy2tomtube
August 17, 2026 at 2:27 pm
The Top 1% owns 32% of everything in America (land, stocks, housing). The Bottom 50% owns basically nothing (2.5%).
If we split the $38 Trillion debt based on who actually owns the country:
• The Top 1% would owe $12.1 Trillion.
• The Bottom 50% would owe… almost zero.
Wake up People, Vote with your Voice, Vote with your Pocketbook, STAND UP
Elon‘s proportional share of the national debt is $166 billion
@MyNameChange5
August 17, 2026 at 2:35 pm
No offense, I realize your edit to something like “all are created equal” was for the purpose of political correctness.
In my opinion, or how I interpret the document, consider the word man to be synonymous with the word human. No political edit neccessary.
Other than that, I agree that the advancement of democracy is basically as the woman described during her speech.
I don’t think the American public feels quite as poor as some people were in the 1920’s, but that is probably because of the safety nets we already have in place.
Proportionally, financial inequality is probably getting pretty close.
Authoritarian type of rule does have a better chance of forcing its way in when people feel desparate. Equal opportunity helps to prevent people from working in favor of Authoritarian mentalities.
@Boomerangbone
August 17, 2026 at 2:44 pm
Just here to say how disheartening and terrible it is that Ted would platform the Columbine shooters mother Sue and spread her delusions any further than her own mind. Rest in Peace to the souls lost that day.
@SeedsForYourMind
August 17, 2026 at 3:20 pm
Democracy is a terrible system because most people are profoundly ignorant if not outright stupid. Plato called democracy a ship steered by an untrained crew, and Churchill called it the worst system – except for all the others. Handing that power to an uninformed majority leads inevitably to demagoguery and collapse.
Democracy treats equal rights as equal competence, elevating popular ignorance over specialised knowledge. When the average voter lacks the time or interest to understand economics, law, or foreign policy, decisions are dictated by emotion, propaganda, and short-term self-interest rather than reason.
We urgently need a completely new way forward. The last couple of thousand years have proven that this outdated, fundamentally flawed model simply does not work. Furthermore, this new system will have to be grounded in a resource-based economy as opposed to the profit-driven corruption we currently have.
@ShowMeYourFnKey
August 17, 2026 at 8:24 pm
When people have time, money, and education, everything that has been being eroded from the average American, they are able to look towards these things. What we have today is an ugly, perverted concept of what democracy’s real definition is and they have moved that needle under the radar little by little every day for decades now just enough for us not to notice.
@pcstearns21
August 17, 2026 at 3:38 pm
While I am in complete agreement with the sentiment, this had little substance. No actual action plan of how to get where we need to be, or any detail of how and why the things she’s saying matter, which is unhelpful for the people that need to understand the problem with our current systems.
@curtisjasper8684
August 17, 2026 at 4:37 pm
We don’t have a democracy never have. We have a constitutional Republic.
@curtisjasper8684
August 17, 2026 at 4:38 pm
No all men is correct men used like that means people.
@leighcwilson
August 17, 2026 at 4:50 pm
Is it just me or are they confusing democracy for socialism?
@JonSebastianF
August 18, 2026 at 9:04 am
Well, “democracy” is conflated with “meritocracy” and “socio-economic equality”, sure. But the first main point, that “income inequality” tends to cause “democratic backsliding”, justifies the conflation a little. It’s quite an important sociological finding.
@Underoverrated
August 17, 2026 at 5:00 pm
I’ve always thought that if you make sure no one is at the edge of ruin, you’ll have a healthy, robust democracy, but go watch some Bill Hicks or George Carlin if you want to know what neither party does anything about the economy.
@woodennickel4010
August 17, 2026 at 5:20 pm
Flowery words with no real solutions, imagine all you want, as long as some have to do nothing to help, just sit and complain, this, we together must, means nothing
@JonSebastianF
August 19, 2026 at 4:37 am
Ah, yes: the Freeloader complaint… Always there to derail the conversation 😛
@SovereignDirt
August 17, 2026 at 6:20 pm
We the people is the new and improved golden calf.🐣
@davidhales8799
August 17, 2026 at 9:02 pm
Democracy fails when people who don’t do anything rely on other people to do and provide for them.
@engineer1692
August 17, 2026 at 9:42 pm
@davidhales8799 agree. Billionaires do nothing but collect profits from their wealth and the labor of others.
@davidhales8799
August 17, 2026 at 10:09 pm
@engineer1692they build wealth , and everyone involved benefits.
Last thing we need is the g’ments being the providers.
@JonSebastianF
August 19, 2026 at 4:39 am
ah, yes, The Freeloader Complaint… always there to derail the conversation 😛
@FZMello
August 19, 2026 at 12:51 pm
@JonSebastianF not to “derail” but the fact remains that there are a great many people whose ambitions stretch no farther that selling their vote to whoever promises them the most spoils taken from others. Democracy will not succeed until it manages to ensure not only equality of opportunity, but equality of expectation.
@JonSebastianF
August 19, 2026 at 4:57 pm
@FZMello Selling their vote? What?
@leviefrauim1425
August 17, 2026 at 9:22 pm
Another lefty speaks, another numbskull who thinks they’re smarter, wiser, better read, better informed than the combined mental intellect and virtue of the Founding Fathers. Get outta here. Modern liberalism, the modern political left, progressivism/socialism/communism is not and has never been the answer.
@tatyana4475
August 17, 2026 at 9:29 pm
She is a communist 😡
@constantinelee7713
August 17, 2026 at 11:35 pm
i love that she`s very enthusiastic and passionate. it lifted up my soul. may the human welfare improve for all of human
@pXnTilde
August 18, 2026 at 4:09 am
“the grass on the other side is greener! (no I’ve never been there, and don’t know how to get there, and don’t know how to measure greenness, but…) TRUST ME!”
@infinidominion
August 18, 2026 at 6:45 am
Too bad she’s totally subverted
@RicardoSilvaTripcall
August 19, 2026 at 2:24 pm
Human welfare paid by who?
@Katfrith222
August 18, 2026 at 12:23 am
Yes‼️
@ruthhowie
August 18, 2026 at 3:32 am
In the 6th Century Athenians protected democracy from oligarch wealth and power through sortition and citizen juries and citizen assemblies and citizen mini public consultation. Sortition is lottery, you know the actual selection of our representatives via lottery, from an actual broad cross section representative of our actual societies. Why was democracy established without these protective measures? Monarchy, oligarchy that’s why. In a functional democracy the public make the laws, get onto it. In addition we can pay for our democratically selected representatives to convene, arrange their usual workplace absence and pay for their childcare needs also. It’s not rocket science.
In addition Pope Leo 14th calls for worker cooperatives and consumer cooperatives to counter global slavery and compounding runaway wealth inequality by shareholder CEO financialisation models. I’m no fan of the Vatican’s tax haven model, but I appreciate this practical advice, every business can benefit from being a cooperative model. I’d recommend tackling tax havens aswell as taxing superwealth.
Find the now 10 year old documentary by Tax Justice UK network economist John Christensen titled The Spiders Web Britain’s Second Empire. It is genuinely rivetting, shocking if unsurprising and includes actual solutions the public can act upon also.
@pXnTilde
August 18, 2026 at 4:02 am
Democracy is a sham, which is why the founders of the US intentionally denied it. Don’t let the leftists use problems in our society to pedal propaganda with promises of a utopia.
@MikeD_11
August 18, 2026 at 4:03 am
Democracy doesn’t fail as a system. Appointed and elected officials fail. The wealthy and special interest groups cause corruption.
@masoudtmomeni2977
August 18, 2026 at 4:50 am
Democracy isn’t primarily a system for choosing the most competent people—it’s a mechanism for achieving peaceful coexistence. Elections are a way to manage conflict between society and government, reducing the risk of unrest, revolution, and civil war.
If the goal is meritocracy, the better mechanism is the free market, where competing producers have to continuously prove their ability to satisfy people’s needs. Unlike politics, where winning an election can matter more than competence, the market constantly rewards what works and pushes out what doesn’t.
So democracy is essential for peace, but we shouldn’t expect it to produce the most capable rulers. Meritocracy is better pursued by limiting political power and allowing voluntary competition in a free market.
@多村光
August 19, 2026 at 3:46 pm
Is democracy simply about voting? In a democratic and rule-of-law society, democracy means that everyone, within the bounds of the law and with guaranteed freedom, can do what they want without interference from others, becoming their own masters and controlling their own destiny and actions. Therefore, democracy is not just about voting. Voting is only used to resolve problems that the law cannot solve, or to address impasses or inefficiencies caused by the law itself. If one believes that democracy is simply about voting, and specifically about electing good leaders, then one’s understanding of democracy remains at the stage of electing a master and slaves. Why should one’s fate be decided by one person, instead of by fair laws and systems?
@多村光
August 19, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Your point is that the core of democracy is the autonomy of the people, not voting itself. I suggest refining your argument, as one point is easily challenged. For example, the statement, “Voting only solves problems that the law cannot solve,” is not entirely accurate. In modern democratic systems, voting includes not only elections but also referendums, local autonomy, and the formation of parliaments. Its function is not merely to fill legal gaps but to provide a legitimate method for generating public decision-making authority. Therefore, it could be rephrased as something more acceptable. [Is democracy simply voting?] The core of democracy is not voting. Voting is merely a tool within a democratic system, not democracy itself. True democracy allows everyone, under the protection of the law, to freely decide their own lives, free from the arbitrary control of others, and to become the master of their own destiny. The purpose of democracy is not to have the people elect a new leader every few years, but to establish a fair, transparent, and oversightable system so that no one is above the law. Therefore, voting is just one of many democratic mechanisms. Its primary function is to reach a consensus peacefully and legally when there are differing opinions on public affairs, not to be the sole content of democracy. A truly mature democratic society should not place all its hopes on a single politician, but rather establish sound institutions, comprehensive information disclosure, an independent judiciary, citizen oversight, and the ability for people to continuously participate in public affairs. If a society believes that “as long as a good leader is elected, all problems will be solved,” then democracy remains stuck in the mindset of “expecting a wise ruler,” rather than being governed by institutions. A truly mature democracy does not rely on heroes, but on institutions. Because even the most outstanding individuals can make mistakes; only fair, transparent, and continuously amended institutions can guarantee the freedom and rights of every individual in the long run. Therefore, what democracy truly pursues is not “who will rule the people,” but “how to enable people to live autonomously and how to ensure that public power is constrained by institutions.” I also noticed that this connects with your earlier concept of “post-monetary civilization.” You are not against democracy, but believe that democracy can continue to evolve, for example, by combining AI-assisted analysis, open and transparent information, and consensus-based decision-making to improve the quality of public decision-making. However, this still belongs to the concept of institutional design, not a denial of modern democratic institutions themselves. Clarifying this point will help readers avoid misunderstanding your position.
@masoudtmomeni2977
August 19, 2026 at 5:07 pm
@多村光 I think the main problem with your argument is that it conflates democracy with liberalism and the rule of law. Individual autonomy, rights, judicial independence, and limits on government power are liberal principles; they are not what makes a system democratic. Democracy is fundamentally about who gets political power and how competing claims to that power are resolved. Democracy does not guarantee wise rulers or eliminate coercion—a democratic majority can still impose laws, taxes, and regulations on others. Its real value is that it provides a peaceful and legitimate mechanism for resolving political conflict and transferring power without violence. That is why democracy should not be judged by whether it produces the most competent leaders. Elections are competitions for political power, not objective tests of competence or morality. In short: democracy determines how political power is contested; liberalism determines what government is allowed to do; and the rule of law limits both rulers and majorities. So my original point remains: democracy is fundamentally a mechanism for peaceful political coexistence, not a machine for finding the best people to rule us.
@VictorChigaemezu-h9n
August 18, 2026 at 5:07 am
I’m retired at Forty eight, earning $137K biweekly…a good son full of love went from Grass to Grace. 🙌from a nobody to good home ❤️ but honestly, the money isn’t even the highlight. What means the most is having a family that stood by me when life was tough. I’m living the life I once prayed for. If you’re still fighting your battles, don’t lose hope – your season is coming…
@Mrsmary-t6i
August 18, 2026 at 5:07 am
Hello!! how do you make such biweekly, I am a born Christian and sometimes I feel so down 😭 of myself because of low finance but I still believe in God.
@JayWebb57-e9b
August 18, 2026 at 5:09 am
I think it’s been 6- 7 years now since she came on letting everyone know what she does
@JayWebb57-e9b
August 18, 2026 at 5:09 am
My mom’s friend Nisha works on her guidance, together with her friends, reference, even i.
@MrsKath
August 18, 2026 at 5:09 am
I’ve been living paycheck to paycheck recently, and it’s been tough lately 😔
@MrsKath
August 18, 2026 at 5:10 am
Can someone help me connect with this woman? I’d really appreciate it; I don’t want to miss out due to my ignorance.
@danmarius
August 18, 2026 at 5:10 am
Paycheck is important, education is more important.
@Abu_Maryam_al_muhajir
August 18, 2026 at 6:09 am
Democracy is a scam
@Juno-dominic
August 19, 2026 at 6:55 am
@Abu_Maryam_al_muhajir And yet here you are partaking a democratic social media platform. The irony🥀
@infinidominion
August 18, 2026 at 6:45 am
Subversion and Demoralization tactics by foreign entities are the biggest threat….
@thatdamkat
August 18, 2026 at 11:49 am
💐💐💐 Your delivery is virtually flawless. Virtually being the disclaimer. Gentle suggestion: Substitute autogolpe for oligarchy.
@michaelteegarden4116
August 18, 2026 at 12:16 pm
The lower the earning demographic, the greater the need for supports in community, economy, and society. The higher the earning demographic, the greater the responsibility to provide those supports. No one’s successes have come from pure individualism; we all need all of us on a daily basis.
@kincamell2
August 18, 2026 at 12:52 pm
It is a Corporatocracy.
@vicaya
August 18, 2026 at 2:59 pm
Economic equality is a communist ideal that’s proven broken by history. It’s a buzz phrase used by demagogues to incite negative emotions from the easily influenced (what they hope) majority. What we need is a true social safety net, while encouraging explorations and innovations. Limit incentives to explore and create by naturally rare minority is detrimental to human prosperity.
@drew2c659
August 18, 2026 at 3:55 pm
It’s not democracy that’s flawed it’s capitalism that is! Money in politics, citizens united enabling more money in politics is what drives income inequality.
@mykolakozak
August 18, 2026 at 6:59 pm
Inequality is due to lack of capitalism (aka political solutions)
@samuelzev4076
August 18, 2026 at 8:40 pm
The problem with democracy is people like her, someone who only points out flaws in the system without actually providing any real solution. Using the small percentage of the ultra rich like CEOs as examples of inequality and failure of the system is just dumb and uneducated. The ultra wealthy are wealthy not because they have an unfair advantage but because they know how to work with the system and provide value to the economy and community by providing jobs and people get paid to put food on their table, so the wealthy are exempted from haeavy taxation. Go further down the road to what this woman is saying it would be socialism, a precursor to communism and the end result is always disastrous
@scottenosh4548
August 19, 2026 at 10:01 am
Doesn’t look like she’s missing too many meals.
@AdamDiVirgilio-k1b
August 20, 2026 at 9:09 am
Hater
@stitman
August 19, 2026 at 11:50 am
Democracy is terrible for society. Also, as long as the electoral college chooses by majority.
This is all hoopla.
@jonahstutesman3367
August 19, 2026 at 3:55 pm
I have to be honest. While I am glad we are having this conversation and we have people advocating for change and a greater tomorrow, this speech doesn’t define actionable steps very well for people, nor does it very carefully define any of the concepts that people need to understand. There are more specific reasons that democracy was working at some point for us. We need to understand why we got to this point in order to prevent it from happening in the future, and be able to collectively gather behind movements for better change before we even experience the negative outcomes that come with not changing or changing for worse.
Here’s what this means: We must understand where we went wrong in our evaluation of the world, economically and politically, separately and together, like she states here. We should not be learning our lessons from making huge mistakes; Individuals do that. At this point, the stakes are too high, and our impact is felt globally. It’s our responsibility to get Democracy right so that the rest of the world has a lead to follow.
I wish that she had more carefully defined what democracy 1.0 and 2.0 were, because the state of the country during those times looked and felt different, and we had different values in those times. We also didn’t have as much means to communicate with each other, and there was lots more inequality and equality at times. During 1.0, there was actually a lot of people involved in the making of American Democracy that were very much trying to selfishly create or protect wealth for themselves, and during 2.0 we had inequality among minorities, while simultaneously having a large amount of prosperity among the middle and working class of America. Those who have platforms like this to speak on should be more specific about what specifically made these cogs in the machine more impactful for certain people during certain times. Like, did we lose sight of our understanding of Democracy during the Boomers’ time simply because a lot of policy was working for a lot of people, BUT we also, concurrently, had a common enemy with different ideologies and vastly different governance? A seemingly simple explanation, but this is the kind of thing we should be evaluating. We need less assumptions, and so therefore we need to answer hard questions from first principles.
I appreciate the speech, but I wish there was less noise and less platitudes. We all know that Democracy needs to work better and we can fantasize about that all day long. We need to more clearly define where we are, how we got here, and where to go next, but with extremely well thought out and careful ideas. We need to stop throwing in our ideas without explanations and not following the ideas to their conclusions. I’m not saying I disagree with you, but what I mean is: if you and others are the experts, then define and explain exactly why Americans will be better off if we have ‘Medicare/Healthcare for all”?
These are the questions we need to be answering and taking seriously, instead of constantly telling eachother what we need to do and slinging around our 2 cents. Opinions are a dime a dozen. Remain practical and effective y’all. We have a lot of work to do and we need to pressure the people who have power, but we still need to think to ourselves and really map out why those people need to listen to us and how we can articulate ourselves so that we may be understood and taken seriously.
If your ideas have value, then take good care of those ideas. Treat them with the respect and value they deserve, and think it through. Please.
@melodylingersonforever
August 20, 2026 at 12:50 am
The real test of democracy 3.0 will be whether everyone in this country pays taxes. When you have 50% of the country not paying taxes to live in a democratic country, the question of equal access to opportunities gets completely lost. And frankly, I am tired of the go-go habit of vilifying the very people who produce the jobs and actually pay those taxes as undeserving of that wealth… most of that wealth is in assets… not dollars… those assets are used to produce products that the rest of us get paid to produce. Our pensions are invested in their stock, which is a large part of their wealth… You take away the one percenters, and the entire economy and the pensions of all the rest of us crash, and we are unemployed because the stocks have to be sold, the assets liquidated. What do you do after that, because the entire wealth of the one percenters only lasts about 4 months or so in running the govt. Half the country will be unemployed, and no one percenters are left. I am a 3rd generation of an immigrant family, and each generation found plenty of opportunity here by not worrying about what someone else made. There were many disappointments as well because that’s life, but they did not let those disappointments blind them to any opportunity that came their way. What your research showed is that democracy is very vulnerable to the POLITICS OF ENVY.
@AdamDiVirgilio-k1b
August 20, 2026 at 9:19 am
I certainly agree the ratio of CEO profits to worker profits is grossly disproportionate.
@tejopalarawls7356
August 20, 2026 at 7:44 pm
Compelling. Thanks. Yet how to make sense of our situation in Australia? We have most of the things here that you argue for under Democracy 3.0, yet the populist right is massively on the rise. Here the major social democratic party (Labor) has not collapsed and is in power, but the main traditional centre-right party (Coalition) very much has. That’s the vacuum that the populist right wing party (One Nation) is filling in the polls. That said, our centre right has policies closer to the right of the Democrats in the US than to the GOP now or in past iterations. Perhaps our election in 2028 will help test your hypothesis. The P.M. is doing his best to win on the terms you have suggested. Let’s see.