the idea is that you want the meritous running things because things work better when smart people are making the decisions
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Because that doesn't seem particularly possible?
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Has there ever been a representative democracy that did not involve the public choosing between different flavors of elite leaders? Even the pre-war socialist parties were full of middle class intellectuals and the trade unionists were, you know, the ones who had become leaders.
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a direct democracy at this scale seems truly awful for all kinds of reasons. a representative democracy requires you pick people to lead.
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Because “nobody running things” is a fantasy that always ends up being “people running things obscurely”, and full democracy tends to be majorities tormenting minorities
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Because direct democracy has always been an immediate catastrophic failure? I don't think anyone knowledgeable on the subject actually believes true direct democracy works at all.
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