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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, not that I believe in it. Representative democracy. It's like, we have the right to elect representatives, who seem to more often than not represent corporate/money interests, not really the interest of the majority.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Congratulations. You now understand politics.

[โ€“] alokir 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just like every other political or economic system that we tried so far. Sounds great in theory, in practice not so much.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You know of a good read on the Swiss? They have elements of direct democracies. I wonder how that does.