On 1/16/16, juan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:33:49 +0000 > Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> 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.
