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I've also heard this was an unanticipated consequence of increased transparency. I'm not ready to give up my faith in the wisdom "the solution to democracy's pr
by specialist 5y ago
I've also heard this was an unanticipated consequence of increased transparency. I'm not ready to give up my faith in the wisdom "the solution to democracy's problems is more democracy". But do try to be mindful that there's always tradeoffs.
- jimkleiber 5y ago> "the solution to democracy's problems is more democracy" By democracy, do you mean direct democracy, representative democracy, both, or neither?
- specialist 5y agoDavid Graeber style participatory democracy. Put decision making closest to the people impacted. Doesn't scale. Which is a feature, not a bug.
- jimkleiber 5y agoIf it doesn't scale, what would be the largest size it would work at, and then how to resolve conflict amongst those groups?
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoThe other problem with this is that the existing votes are already choreographed for public consumption, so the existing transparency is an illusion. There was a bill earlier this year to expand police funding. After a year of "defund the police" from AOC et al, it turned out that if she would have voted against it, it would have actually defeated the bill. So instead she voted "present" and the bill passed. Most people aren't going to notice that, but that was equivalent to voting yes. And if her vote wasn't actually necessary to pass the bill, she'd then have been able to vote no specifically because it wouldn't change the outcome, even though as we know she would flip when it mattered. That happens on a regular basis too but in those cases it's undetectable.