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Democracies need to be ineffective and slow to some degree in order to be stable and to allow all people to participate. Otherwise, a coup d'état would be far t
by codethief 7y ago
Democracies need to be ineffective and slow to some degree in order to be stable and to allow all people to participate. Otherwise, a coup d'état would be far too easy because efficiency means that only little time would pass between a decision (whether legal or illegal) being made and it getting implemented.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoThere's a difference between slow and slowly doing things that are bad for you and everyone around you because some "powers that be" who live in some far off city and have close to nothing in common with you want it done. If it were up to me I'd make the US into ~100 states and reverse a lot of the power transfer from the states to the feds that's happened over the past 100yr.
- mountainofdeath 7y agoThere is a reason why it's much harder to change federal law than a local ordinance. The broader the effect, the more difficult it should be. Effective government should not be about kneejerk reactions.