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Yeah in a nation the size of the USA direct democracy gets messy. You need a smaller space with a more consistent culture for it to work well IMO.
Basically get something like reddit/lemmy as a social forum. You use it for business reviews, running for office, looking for jobs, raising issues and crowd sourcing solutions. Make it block chain with each state hosting a node. Make every user verified and use it for voting. It's absolutely a solvable problem it's just that all the money and power is actively working against progress.
I've been wondering if something like the United Countries of North America type of EU but that still leaves all kinds of questions about the military and how much blood the road from here will take.
Lol, no it isn't a solvable problem, and let me be crystal clear here, techbros will never be able to solve this precisely because they think they can solve it.
I think you misunderstand. I don't see that as the fix. A system like that would only work with an educated populace that understands more than the bare minimum to get by, if that.
The only real fix is a populace that can think critically and is informed, but even that's not easily attained at this point as there's so much money to be made with institutionalization.
Then yes I did misunderstand. I believe that democracy through the blockchain while a novel idea seems a bad idea to attempt IRL given who fills the cryptosphere.
Yes, it's technically technologically tryable but not practically politically possible.