I have been reading the Democratic Party Platform for 2024 on my YouTube and Twitch channels. (SomeRandomG33k on both if you haven't follow yet.) And something I need to remind my audience is that I hate the concept of "policies" in general. I hate the idea that only a small handful of us in society get to decide on how to run society. I rather it be done collectively. And I rather that positions of power over others don't exist at all as much as possible. And I don't believe that "Politicians will listen to us," as Liberals believe because there will become a point that the Democrats won't pass what we want because their donors don't want it. And Democrats will give the excuse of "unforeseen consequences" for not passing anything progressive. Or it is whoever is the latest Joe Manchin. Who ever is the most conservative member of their party. And the Dems never fight against their most conservative members too. Or have rarely done so in the last two decades.
"Another reason I hesitate to make policy suggestions is that I am suspicious of the very idea of policy. Policy implies the existence of an elite group—government officials, typically—that gets to decide on something (“a policy”) that they then arrange to be imposed on everybody else. There’s a little mental trick we often play on ourselves when discussing such matters. We say, for instance, “What are we going to do about the problem of X?” as if “we” were society as a whole, somehow acting on ourselves, but, in fact, unless we happen to be part of that roughly 3 percent to 5 percent of the population whose views actually do affect policy makers, this is all a game of make-believe; we are identifying with our rulers when, in fact, we’re the ones being ruled. This is what happens when we watch a politician on television say “What shall we do about the less fortunate?” even though at least half of us would almost certainly fit that category ourselves. Myself, I find such games particularly pernicious because I’d prefer not to have policy elites around at all. I’m personally an anarchist, which means that, not only do I look forward to a day sometime in the future when governments, corporations, and the rest will be looked at as historical curiosities in the same way as we now look at the Spanish Inquisition or nomadic invasions, but I prefer solutions to immediate problems that do not give more power to governments or corporations, but rather, give people the means to manage their own affairs."
And of course, here is the book. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs
