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Deliberative democracy is great. Put people in enriched decisionmaking environments for better outcomes, and then get greater democratic legitimacy from doing s
by hkt 8y ago
Deliberative democracy is great. Put people in enriched decisionmaking environments for better outcomes, and then get greater democratic legitimacy from doing so than even some representatives? Win win.
This is the opposite of populism too: when we voted Brexit in the UK, it was an uncontrolled, information-scarce (and falsehood-rich) environment. A room where people were organised and where they asked for their own experts and talked to one another would never have delivered that result.
- sbhn 8y agoPeople in the uk voted brexit, because it was just after the uk us and france were dropping bombs in lybia and syria, arab spring they called it, the destruction of infrastructure created millions of refugees, the bbc amplyied the importance and strength of isis, and flashed images of thousands of the refugees in calais tripping over each other trying to illegally cross the channel into the uk. The good souls of england thought they were under attack, bless em.