> At most, working-class voters can cast their ballots for an “un­acceptable” candidate, but they can exercise no influence on policy formation or agency perso

> At most, working-class voters can cast their ballots for an “un­acceptable” candidate, but they can exercise no influence on policy formation or agency personnel, much less on governance areas that have been transferred to technocratic bodies. The problem here is that we don't have direct democracy. I've noticed that citizens in countries with direct democracy elements like Switzerland seem to feel significantly better represented by their governments. It blows my mind how little is spoken about direct democracy and concepts like delogative/liquid democracy. There's absolutely no reason we must confine ourselves to a representative democracy conceived in a time when direct democracy was literally impossible because messages were delivered on horseback.