I am taking 6000 years to finish If We Burn but his illustration of Dilma Rousseff’s presidency and how it lost popularity is very insightful. It describes the incredibly challenging position leftist politicians are left in our complex governance systems. I don’t want to do Lula apologia but even for him it must be very difficult to do things he wants with the composition of the Brazilian Congress. The same for Zohran.

This makes me think a couple of things…
P.S. I am anti horizontalism. I am not doing liberal democracy apologia

Now that that is out of the way, I wonder what other new governance structures can we build that avoid bureaucracy, avoid the slow paced-ness of consensus building, represent popular interests without marginalisation on multiple scales? people talk a lot about direct democracy, but what would the logistics of that look like? How would it be implemented? alternative governance models- what are the nitty gritties of these models? How would they work (1/n)