The Technate should of course be democratic, but I think we need to think about ways to exercise democracy and what systems are best suited to meet the needs and desires of the people. Democracy in these times is synonymous with electoral systems and western-style governments, despite in reality these systems being unfair, harmful to minority groups who have less population to vote in their interests, or in many cases outright corrupt with lobbying of politicians being completely legal in The United States. Elections and electoral systems have become completely divorced from any traditional sense of democracy and are used to exercise plutocracy. The fact that lobbyists need to exist for issues such as gay marriage or trans rights is especially dystopian, because it means vulnerable people realize they live in a plutocratic system but then decide the best course of action is to raise more money than their political opposition just so they can have civil rights.
Many people recoil when I say that I am not fond of voting. They think that in a society without voting or some other form of participation in government, they would be politically helpless and subsequently treated badly or have no recourse against tyranny. I perceive that to already be the reality for most people in the current society we live in. Even if the majority of people support something, lines are drawn for districts to suit the results the elites of society need to get their legislation passed. If that fails, they just outright change the rules of the elections. Here in Florida, a law was passed that changed the necessary majority for votes from 50% to 60%, most likely to stop the citizens of the state from passing certain legislation as law.
Besides these obvious political schemes, there are also issues that never have elections to allow input from the citizenry and are decided by political representatives with no input from the society. These are issues such as international policies such as support of the US government towards Israel or even wars, such as its invasions of Vietnam or Libya. People have even been arrested for protesting these issues and the media tends to fall in line with whatever the regime needs the people to believe, with protesters being suppressed violently. Imperialism is a huge red flag for any society that considers itself democratic, because it complicates the narrative they are attempting to create about their society being more advanced or progressive than others that do not cause death and destruction abroad, sometimes even despite being oppressive dictatorships themselves.
While I am very disappointed in the results of the systems that exist in the western world and continually fail to stop oppression, poverty, and imperialism, I am not advocating a Singaporean-style approach where the will of the people is simply suppressed and brute force is used to keep technocracy in power. People should participate in government, but they need to understand certain things about how the government works, the ideologies behind current systems, and the reasoning behind various laws. In the western world where people are spoon fed politically biased information and then sent to vote are set up to screw themselves. However, political parties are not their allies in this system, which brings me to my next point.
In a technocracy or a society where the economy does not create conflicting economic interests, there will be a lack of conflicting political interests as well, allowing society to be more cohesive and progressive that can function logically. The reason for different parties and political ideologies goes back to the economic system, and that is why communist societies consistently produce better results for their citizens’ well being and quality of life despite being one-party systems and being perceived as corrupt dictatorships by those in the west, who believe that multi-party democracies are ideal. This means that if we want to create a democracy, we need to think about the reasons that people have different ideological goals and preferences and adjust the system according to it, and remove any possibilities of an upper social class hijacking the system as they have in the US. In the absence of economic interests, many hate groups or kakistocracy groups such as flat-earthers would most likely disappear, since the masses would get education, psychiatric care, and there would not be a sense of competition that the ruling class creates to make us more productive workers for their interests.
You may be asking what the party for working class people is in the United States, but there exists none because that would be the communist party, and anyone who tries that ends up as a political prisoner. The best you see in the US are center-right parties that act in the interests of the middle class. The further right party in the US benefits the elites of society, but a lack of education and religious and nationalistic appeal is used to make this party palatable to the more conservative minded population of the society. It may seem the US system was once a genuine attempt to be democratic at one point and then corrupted, but the reality is that the entire system was rigged by the people who created it, and only included non-landowning white men when not doing so would cause the entire system to collapse in a violent revolution. Every citizen may need to be entitled a right to vote to stop a large revolution, but that is exactly why the ruling class is so subtle with the ways that it manipulates and distorts the desires of its citizens as well as how their votes affect the system. It is also why liberalism, despite appearing progressive on the surface, is so afraid to do anything that goes against the system, the economy, or the ruling class.
As a technocrat, please do not buy into the narrative that the United States was ever a model for democracy at any point in its long history of brutal violent oppression.