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Virtue Signaling & Tiered Democratic Governance
Is the TDG guilty of forcing a new moral code on us?
Many Medium readers will claim that what a politician does in his or her private life should have no bearing in his or her public life. If the politician is doing a good public job (whatever that means), democracy should keep the private details private.
So I was expecting some pushback with my series of “mixing vice & politics.”
I didn’t get the opposition I was hoping for. Rather, all six of my vice articles tanked. Not one of them earned me more than $1 in Medium royalties. And the “sex” article was the worst of the bunch. Go figure!
I was ignored. My goal of being attacked to get more notoriety had failed.
The common threads of these articles are as follows:
1) If our elected politicians have fewer vices, they will have fewer life distractions to keep them from solving real societal problems.
2) Such politicians will not be giving ammunition to their arch enemies who want to see them fail.
3) Western democracy has proven not to be able to filter out these vices.
4) My alternative democracy (the TDG) will be a better filter, getting more capable people to better address…
