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This seems like a bad idea. You are assuming you have an informed electorate and that is rarely the case. Not saying what is in place is the best right now, but
by electic 10y ago
This seems like a bad idea. You are assuming you have an informed electorate and that is rarely the case. Not saying what is in place is the best right now, but what you are suggesting seems far worse.
- Synaesthesia 10y agoIn other words people are too ignorant to know what's good for them and we must trust our smart government officials to make decisions for us. A typical line of anti-democratic ideology.
- electic 10y agoNo. It is not likely the average person will have time to go through all the nuances of a bill to properly evaluate it and make an informed decision. You are obviously passionate about the big name issues but there are hundreds, if not thousands, of boring bills and policy adjustments that the common person is not going to research to make an informed decision. Direct democracy has been tried and it largely failed.
- Synaesthesia 10y agoIt hasn't been tried! Not to my knowledge. And the closest approximations have been quite good successes too. For example the Swiss system, in Liby under Gadaffi there was a system where every law had to be ratified by the population. Apparently it was very successful. Lastly the system of workers councils and anarchist rule in revolutionary Spain was very successful.