I know someone in CA whose default rule is "If I don't understand it, vote against it, because if it were a good law they would pass it the normal way and not by trying to trick voters into passing it" Unfortunately ballot initiatives are so normalized now it's not a great rulehttps://twitter.com/PolitiCatGrump/status/1316592442238332930 …
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People who think "Politicians are all slimy crooks so we should have a democracy that doesn't have any politicians, just vote on everything!" are one of my least favorite flavor of democracy reformers.
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If you want a book that will convince you that direct democracy is a terrible idea, read "Democracy for Realists" which spends three chapters telling us that voters basically play "opposite day" every election cycle. (the book is a great read to feel hopeless about everything).
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PJ O'Rourke wrote an whole book about how terrible politicians were, but finished it off by going to a town meeting, which was just as bad.
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you have not fully comprehended the wrongness of direct democracy until you have attended a ten-hour town hall occupied primarily by old white people ranting about the evils of the bike lobby
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