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"people more readily obey a system which purports to heed their input". Sounds like democracy.

• winrid 8y ago
  Care to clarify your point?
  • it 8y ago
    In a country with millions of voters, a single vote isn't likely to be what decides who gets elected. In the limit of infinite voters, casting a vote is a lot like pressing a placebo button. It's not directly useful for the voter, but it makes the voter more likely to accept the outcome.
    • andai 8y ago
      I wonder, has any research been done on the size of a democracy and how represented the average individual feels?
    • AgentME 8y ago
      >In a country with millions of voters, a single vote isn't likely to be what decides who gets elected. Forget worrying about single votes: even having most of the votes isn't necessarily enough to influence things! (Referring to the 2000 and 2016 presidential elections, and to the concept of gerrymandering.)
• marcosdumay 8y ago
  Democracy works by the very direct effect that almost always when anybody is powerful enough to make a coup and take the government, that somebody has been powerful enough to take the government by vote for a long time. There are many indirect effects that may help, people feeling represented is one of them. But they are near to irrelevant when compared to that direct one.