Hmm I think this would actually be a step backwards... direct democracy is technically and technologically more primitive than representative democracy and far less capable of handling modernity. Witness the quagmire of ballot initiative politics.https://twitter.com/miniver/status/1157712352113938432 …
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I feel like Switzerland is not being discussed enough. Anecdata include (1) everyone who lives there seems to love it (2) they vote on everything (3) it seems to work (4) no-one knows who is in charge
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Also (5) family feuds are started and maintained by stuff like having a local referendum to force someone’s grandma to pay money she can’t afford to get a local road unnecessarily resurfaced
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Replying to @vgr @humanleon
Okay looked it up, not very different from European mean
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