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That's a naive view of how democracy works in practice. It turns out that elections aren't an efficient market and the "will of the people" is instead dominated
by philipov 9y ago
That's a naive view of how democracy works in practice. It turns out that elections aren't an efficient market and the "will of the people" is instead dominated by externalities like campaign committees, advertising/propaganda, and lobbyists.
You say you don't think it's healthy to talk that way, but that's backwards. People talk this way because the democracy isn't healthy.
- bjelkeman-again 9y agoI haven’t seen many good proposals for reform though. And I am not talking about getting rid of what I consider undemocratic processes in the U.S like gerrymandering, removing capacity to vote (closing I.d card issuing centres etc). But true reform in functional representative democracies.
- casiotone 9y ago> I haven’t seen many good proposals for reform though. You're not reading the right colour books.