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As Hind Elhinnawy observes:
'If the world can tolerate the Taliban’s abuses, Iraq’s restrictive laws & the US restrictions on abortion access, it reveals the fragility of women’s & girls’ rights globally, and how easy it is to take them away'!
Feminism's work is never done & any idea that once rights have been won they don't need continually defending against (mostly) male political attack is very much mistaken.
Patriarchy never rests!
@ChrisMayLA6 patriarchy & capitalism we, all of the 99% need to end #patriarchalcapitalism and the system of representative democracy that promotes it. Democracy is about people talking about change not about professional politicians & lobbyists, mostly men and corporate representatives again mostly men.
protecting their interests/profits/survival.
I (we?) absolutely need partnership not domination.
@SortitionNow #dwe #Justice #Equity #equality #Education #Unity #Love
Is it the structure of representative democracy that's the problem or the money required?
If there were true public financing, would that make a substantive difference?
Also, so long as there are countries in the world run by autocrats and kleptocrats completely disdainful of national borders and the rights of the residents of any country, we're going to need a national defense capability.
Whatever governance we have must be able to manage that.
States have always needed a national defence capability, and as you suggest will continue to do so... the bigger Q. is whether that should focus on defence or the additional projection of power into external territories/regions.
For me; the basic structures of representative democracy are fine, we just need stronger gender equality norms & practices - and that is a long term cultural change not a quick technical fix (i.e not just changing the funding of parties)
@ChrisMayLA6 @joeinwynnewood here is an informative organization working to transform representative democracy. As a starting point it seems to work and naturally is open to change which Sadly the UN is not. It also has checks and balances as well addressing global governance which seems to be the brunt of this conversation.
Either way this is long term work and one of generations probably.
https://earthconstitution.world/earth-federation-model
When my students wished to explore such solutions to the problems fo global politics, we'd usually end up posting the only way this would happen would be a viable external threat.... in a fantasy sense, the treat of alien invasion (modelled on state formation as a repose to the 'other'), but nowadays one might expect the treat of clinal catastrophe to prompt movement towards such models... the fact it hasn't tells you much about the power of vested interests