On 1/16/16, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:33:49 +0000 Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
- whereas with direct democracy 'the people' only have themselves to blame, since they vote for/against every single law and executive order,
Well, that would be at least more interesing and honest than the system we currently have. The problem remains though, some people seem to believe that whatever a majority votes for is automatically good or legitimate.
Yes that's a problem with (most) people it seems. That's where the right to individual objection, non-consent or "political protest" would perhaps have a far better chance of survival in direct democracy -> where an individual demonstrates an issue which a few handfuls of other people consider valid, then hi ho, hi ho, it's off to the ballot we go -> which is what I thought (when I was young, which was at least a few dozen moments ago) democracy was supposed to be.