Cryptography as Democratic Weapon Against Demagoguery

By August 7, 2016Bitcoin Business

Nozomi Hayase, PhD, is a writer who has been covering issues of freedom of speech, transparency and decentralized movements.

In this opinion piece, Hayase discusses what she asserts is the current disorderly state of US democracy, arguing that the system is rigged, and that efforts to improve it may benefit from a better understanding bitcoin’s security model. America has passed the twilight zone. The nomination of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential primary confirmed the charade of US politics. Elections are sold to the highest bidder. No matter how much popular support a candidate like Bernie Sanders might garner, the corporate masters who sponsor this rigged game in the end take all.

Many know that we do not live in a democracy, yet the level of corruption is becoming even more blatantly apparent. Now, the oligarchic class doesn’t need to lobby candidates. They can simply run for office, just like Donald Trump.

When essential functions of democracy are disabled and the system has lost its internal safety mechanisms, what can ordinary people do? The success of Bernie Sanders in galvanizing millennials, along with his independent campaign financing, revealed that the people do care and that the issue is not a lack of will for change.

The problem goes much deeper into the very structure of current governance. The fundamental challenge seems to revolve around a lack of true understanding of adversaries and the psychology of those in power.

Most people tend to assume good in others and think they operate with similar motives.

The deep failure of democracy has shaken up these assumptions, showing this to be a naive and overly idealistic view of man. The 2008 financial meltdown and crisis of legitimacy exposed the existence of individuals who have a radically different makeup than the rest of the population. These are psychopaths, […]

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