• mojo_raisin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The problem is, it’s a practical impossibility for the masses to mandate anything. There are way over 300 million people in the U.S. (for example), there is no practical way for a majority of them to mandate anything without going through channels put there by those in power which limit the scope of conversation as well as choices.

    Anyone claiming a mandate from the people is really claiming successful control of oppressive systems.

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      7 months ago

      Totally agree. Government starts getting worse the bigger a population it tries to govern.

      But if I say “who wants pizza” and an entire kindergarten class says “Me!” then I’d call that a mandate from the masses.