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> direct democracy was too prone to degenerate into mob rule Do you think its possible that new advances in technology since 1776 might just enable direct demo
by ilovetux 9y ago
> direct democracy was too prone to degenerate into mob rule
Do you think its possible that new advances in technology since 1776 might just enable direct democracy to avoid the degeneration you cite?
> to actually implement it, you have to amend the Constitution
I think we would actually have to rewrite the constitution. The definition of congress is a major section of the constitution and any amendment would basically have to rewrite large swaths of the original document.
- AnimalMuppet 9y ago> Do you think its possible that new advances in technology since 1776 might just enable direct democracy to avoid the degeneration you cite? No. It's the people who are the problem, not the technology. (In particular, think about all those people on Facebook amplifying false information during the last election cycle.)