Americans have been picnicking at unprecedented scale.

I saw a thread about it where someone asked "Ok, but what are our demands this time? All this turnout is useless if we don't do anything with it".

The answer given? Vote.

... That was all. ...

All the workers in the company, or all the workers, period?

Internal democracy within entities that still have the same rapacious, anti-social incentives against broader society as traditional businesses won't get you far. At best it might slow down the process of turning those within into faithful heralds of the algorithm of capital.

Democracy under capitalism isn't difficult, it's impossible.

"I can fix them."

Them: the graveyard of social movements.

The implicit admission that "out of sight, out of mind" is the first line of defence of thought control they're desperately trying to maintain is too funny.

What would Machiavelli do? is a fine continuation of that energy.

I love democracy.

I get what you mean, but there's no such thing as unbiased. The very idea is a trap that facilitates accepting implicit biases uncritically.

... and it is only in so far as the appropriation of even more and more wealth in the abstract becomes the sole motive of his operations, that he functions as a capitalist, that is, as capital personified and endowed with consciousness and a will.