The biggest issue of politics is that it is not seen as managing 100 million people but as stupid terms of left and right.
There’s no left when managing 100 million people There’s no right when managing 100 million people
There are 10000 different characteristics of each person and the ruler has to choose the right action for or against the right person. That is politics. It is not liberal, it is not authoritarian. An ideal ruler is liberal against one who’s liberal and authoritarian against one who’s authoritarian.
When we stop seeing politics in terms of these stupid terms, all will be solved!
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Nah. Yes, one sways people here and there according to ideology and winning elections is important, but work of a politician is to manage system as a whole, it is to divide responsibility to next layer of hierarchy, check how much of policies are implemented on grassroots by taking feedback from grassroots and hold that next layer accountable and incentivize or penalize them. Those in next layer will take care of layer below them till things reach the last layer.
Obviously more layers will lead to more cost (commission, corruption, etc.).
As far as I know, authoritarian means that who implements his decision irrespective of whether population likes or not. Such behavior is important in some times. Liberal means that who allows freedom. That too is important in some cases. There’s no middle right, middle left, left and such crap. If I were a politician, I’d simultaneously be at complete scale, precisely because it’s a useless scale.
I really don’t know the meaning of word politics, polity, etc. but I understand very well influence, elections and decision making which are real concepts to me. Statesmanship for me, is the most difficult thing, to be divided into simple duality of right and left.
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I’m pretty sure those who aren’t authoritarian also have the same strategy of winning over a minority and controlling a majority. The only difference is in that case the majority believe that they’re not being terrorized and they really believe the ruler acts in their best interests.
There are 10000 different characteristics of each person and the ruler has to choose the right action for or against the right person.
It is not realistic to manage millions of people one by one though. Politics is about managing a collectivity, choosing sets of rules and strategies to implement them. So different programs will have different characteristics, for example socially liberal vs authoritarian, that make up ideologies.
Then overall a program or an ideology can be positioned on the left-right axis according to its tendency to be more progressive (left) or conservative (right). Of course it is only one characteristic for the general direction, who ever said it suffices to precusely describe a program?
This is why dictatorships of the proletariat pare things down to one party. 😉
If all minorities are in the same party with everyone else, the state has to consider them proportionally instead of assigning them to the “enemy” political party in order to reverse their rights and send that party’s progress backwards.
Vietnam, for example, has land protections for ethnic minorities that can’t be voted away, and 48% of the representatives in Cuba’s legislature are women. Both countries have recently expanded lgbt rights as well. Compare to terf island where lgbt rights were voted in rapidly when it was popular, but are now being eroded alongside state healthcare as conservatism sweeps across Europe.
That’s a different take.
