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The USA is trending away from direct democracy, and majoritarian rule in general. I think the time has passed for any sort of reform to take place.
by bediger4000 2y ago
The USA is trending away from direct democracy, and majoritarian rule in general. I think the time has passed for any sort of reform to take place.
- engineer_22 2y agoThe USA has never been direct democracy (if that form of govt is even desirable, likely not).
- bediger4000 2y agoI see you're the kind of guy who wants his senators appointed by the state legislature. I, too, enjoy having wiser heads, who know better, prevail!
- google234123 2y agoIf you are ever on trial, I wonder if you'd prefer having a judge thinking about reelection when making decisions ...
- namlem 2y agoSenators should be appointed by citizens assemblies/elector juries imo.
- telesilla 2y agoWinston Churchill: “democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.”
- ClayShentrup 2y agowe need election by jury, not "democracy". https://www.electionbyjury.org/ https://www.electionbyjury.org/
- greyface- 2y agoThis seems discontinuous with the Center for Election Science's earlier push for approval voting. Approval voting maximizes the consent of the governed; this, while it may arguably do a better job at evaluating candidates, minimizes the consent of the governed, as most constituents would not have the opportunity to consent to any candidate. It's an interesting idea, but I would be very concerned about the outcome being perceived as illegitimate by the general population.
- namlem 2y agoHell yes. Also just citizens assemblies in general, whether for appointing officials or directly deliberating on issues. Turns out randomly selected citizens actually perform far better than elected officials.
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- imtringued 2y agoGermans don't elect their chancellor. USA has more direct democracy than you think.
- spankalee 2y agoUnfortunately, we're actually trending more towards direct democracy with an increasing number of referendums that often have terrible results. Representatives and their staff usually do a better job of writing bills.
- keybored 2y agoI don’t doubt the competency of representatives & staff when it comes to writing bills. I just doubt who they are writing the bills for…
- imtringued 2y agoAh yes, the anti democracy scare. Switzerland is doing hundreds of referendums and is now closer to a thousand referendums than to 0 and they are doing better than the rest of Europe.
- namlem 2y agoBoth referendums and elections are fundamentally broken and not particularly democratic to begin with. Deliberative citizens assemblies are the future of democracy. Randomly selected citizens, selected by stratified sampling for representativeness, are able to deliberate at a farm higher standard of discourse than elected officials. Such assemblies have performed extremely well so far in Ireland, France and Belgium