• interceder270@lemmy.world
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    Direct voting is the future.

    We’re not ready for it yet. Everyone still bitches about corrupt politicians but still thinks direct voting is a bad idea, lol.

    Rubes.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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      Stupid take. Nobody thinks rote popularity contest is a good idea. There’s too much to know. Too much to regulate. Have to employ experts.

      If it were left to popular vote, do you think we would have the Exclusionary Rule? A ban on cruel and unusual punishment? A right to remain silent? Any criminal rights?

      Any minority rights at all?

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        So just vote for the issues that matter to you.

        Either way, you get more control than having someone else make the decisions for you.

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          “Abstain from votes you feel unqualified for while the unqualified radicalized masses vote every time” isn’t exactly the winning strategy either. Fact is a large portion of the population has no problem voting incompetently and/or under the influence of malicious talking heads.

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            I don’t see why you think the constituency would routinely make worse decisions than the people they put in power.

            Fact is a large portion of the population has no problem voting incompetently and/or under the influence of malicious talking heads.

            What makes you think politicians are exempt from this?

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      Direct voting is the future.

      We have frequent ballot measures in California and as a voter I do a lot of work to understand those ballot measures that many do not have the time or the ability to do. California ballots may have 5-10 questions on them, and these things already take a long time to properly research and understand…Can you imagine the complexity when you’re talking about national issues and especially thinking of running the entire government that way?

      It’s a full-time job. There’s no way it’s scalable to run a country this large with this many competing interests using direct voting. You’d spend your whole life voting on or researching on voting on things.

      Ultimately, you’d wind up with industry writing all of the law proposals and a misrepresented version of those coming across some kind of voting device. We’d still continue our slow slide into some sort of industrial feudalism, just without the politicians to blame for it.

      I think proportional representation and ranked choice voting are both better ideas.

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        Mmm, your entire point can be negated by acknowledging that politicians and elections are usually bought out.

        Do you think Congress represents the will of the people? Do you think it should?

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          Mmm, your entire point can be negated by acknowledging that politicians and elections are usually bought out.

          How is anything I’ve posted negated by the fact that corruption exists?