Mike O wrote: -snip- >I prefer direct democracy, and that very likely would be easier to >get than Parliamentary govt, or even PR. Especially considering the >stong anti-politician sentiment of the public. -snip- I'm not so sure it would be easier to get dd, which at the moment would seem like a radical change. Maybe after some years of small-scale experimentation? I wouldn't like the kind of dd which "disenfranchises" the citizens who are too busy to vote often. I refer to this kind as "you snooze, you lose" direct democracy. But it's possible to design dd so that each citizen can maintain a sorted list of proxies (with him/herself implied at the top), so that the citizen's voting weight would transfer to his/her highest ranked proxy who didn't fail to vote. (Maybe even allow splitting of weight among equally-ranked proxies.) The proxies could be any citizens, including one's family and friends. I think this would provide the best aspects of dd and representative government. ---Steve (Steve Eppley [EMAIL PROTECTED])
