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To expand on this: Even if everyone devoted the time necessary to make informed decisions on all the issues (and they absolutely would not, but that wouldn't st
by ashark 12y ago
To expand on this: Even if everyone devoted the time necessary to make informed decisions on all the issues (and they absolutely would not, but that wouldn't stop them from having an opinion and voting, especially if prodded by moneyed interests) it would mean that everyone would have to devote so much time to understanding politics, economics, and international relations (among other things!) that they'd have no time left to do anything else.
I'll keep my representative democracy and the ability to think about and work on things that aren't related to governing a state, thanks. Even if direct democracy could fix all the current system's problems and all of us did everything we could to be good, informed voters (it couldn't, and we wouldn't) I'd still be worse off under it.
- mcdoug 12y agoExactly. Even if you postulate that today's US politician spends 50% of their time raising money, they still spend 20-30 hours a week actually doing their job, however poorly. Not many citizens can do this, so they will most likely do a worse job than the current politicians. I don't really want that. Or, what's more likely is that they will outsource their thinking to the likes of Fox News. I shudder to think about what this could look like.