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Because you're talking about Averaged Joes instead of a singular political career. Direct democracy, I'm guessing, would amortise absolute power corrupting abs
by LukeB42 9y ago
Because you're talking about Averaged Joes instead of a singular political career.
Direct democracy, I'm guessing, would amortise absolute power corrupting absolutely by spreading the power thinly across the population.
- neilwilson 9y agoAveraged Joes are not independent entities. They network. So you don't get the effect. What you get is design by committee. Or more accurate design by committee of factions. The idea that democracy is a great way of solving all problems is just as much an ideology as rule by technocrat.
- LukeB42 9y agoArguing the converse would be arguing that one representatives soul has more inherent decisive import than those represented and that's difficult to qualify or quantify unless the representative entity's God himself.