I have to agree that these days I don't see elections, as currently performed, as being effective at representing the population. Case in point, here in Ireland we have Proportional Representation, which helps to prevent a two-party system and means that we are more likely to achieve a voting outcome that satisfies (or dissatisfies) the most people; a compromise, instead of a strategically voted least-worst. However, we still have the problem that only a wealthy person can run for office, in the same way that only a wealthy person can take the risk of "boot-strapping" a company or take any comparable risk. So, only wealthy people get represented, and thus regular or disadvantaged people get little representation. Far better, I think, to take a statistically relevant sample of the population on a rolling basis: Liquid Sortition. If I had my way, one of our houses of government would be pure liquid sortition, the other would be a form of liquid democracy, and instead of a president we'd call a large jury for each legislative change that might require constitutional oversight. But I won't get my way. :) On 05/03/15 20:32, grarpamp wrote:
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Douglas Lucas <dal@riseup.net> wrote:
So skip the establishment. ... Democracy sucks: individuals can't represent groups and vice versa.
For some, the NULL is just as valid an answer to the political question. A hard thing to achieve as it is nature of humanity to group in things, including politic.
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