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You have invented direct democracy (except that we don’t need parties as middlemen, the votes can be spent directly on legislations — the role of parties is lim
by atemerev 4y ago
You have invented direct democracy (except that we don’t need parties as middlemen, the votes can be spent directly on legislations — the role of parties is limited to helping drafting legislations and recommending how to vote — and these recommendations can be ignored, of course).
Switzerland works like this. It is a good system.
- wanderingbort 4y agoNot quite. It would be direct democracy if the “currency” was zeroed/refreshed for every ballot issue. As stated the inter-issue strategy makes this a different game.