Shame so many of you believe this...

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[–]sproketboy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

https://medium.com/@ArticlesOfUnity/the-articles-of-unity-f544f930d336

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Direct democracy is better.

[–]sproketboy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Nah. That's just mob rules. My collective is bigger than your collective. We vote to put you in the oven. You go in the oven.

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You have zero idea what direct democracy is, right? You obviously haven't studied the topic AT ALL. Please inform yourself before posting nonsense, it doesn't make you look good.

Start with just a tiny drop of education for yourself. You can thank me and apologize after.

https://saidit.net/s/politics/comments/5p4t/what_is_direct_democracy_here_is_how_the_swiss_do/

Unless your argument is that all democracy is "mob rule" and that we should get rid of it because of that. So which is it?

[–]sproketboy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

How is it "direct" democracy when you have a "representative" parliament? Switzerland has partial direct democracy like in other western countries that have referendums on things. Actual direct democracy in the US would be a disaster which is I guess what you want.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

It's DIRECT because the people can veto any bill and require anything to be legislated for. How do you achieve that in the totalitarian states of america.

[–]sproketboy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

By helicoptering clowns like you to Cuba so you can make your magic utopia without us.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Illogical leap.

Direct democracy is better, among many alternative solutions (ie. ranked choice voting). But they won't allow that. "If voting were effective they'd make it illegal." In this case they won't allow voting to become effective and then they don't need to make it illegal. There are already over 40 ways to rig the vote.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Nice article, nice idea, but IMO it's impractical without access to the MSM.

For years I've been saying a triumvirate would be better forced to reach consensus on issues among the 3, nothing proceeds without consensus. Maybe more, up to 8 would be even better, though slower. Consensus means all agree completely, rather than a majority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumvirate

8 was the ideal project team number, according to studies about projects and problem solving - according to a video I saw about solving puzzle rooms. I don't know if it actually would apply to politics, but more than 8 and it gets confusing and/or political and less than 8 is not as many diverse creative minds. Also, in the team of 8 someone would be given the task of managing/wrangling the information - thus leaving 7, an odd number if voting was necessary.