The best argument for representative democracy (vs direct democracy) is that people don’t have time to invest themselves in every political decision. Ironically, now we livestream every decision, follow every decision via pundits, and read each others hot takes about these decisions, all the while feeling helpless knowing we have no power to shape the decision-making process until, in the best case scenario, the next election provides meaningfully different candidates. Spoiler alert: it won’t.
✦ Takes identified
Is representative democracy (as currently practiced) delivering meaningfully different candidates at elections?
evaluativedemocratic choice qualitycontested
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Where people landed
1 yes · 1 no (casts, from 2 people). These are the classifier’s reading of each cast — not stakes, votes, or a poll.
- no
The best argument for representative democracy (vs direct democracy) is that people don’t have time to invest themselves in every political decision. Ironically, now we livestream every decision, follow every decision via pundits, and read each others hot takes about these decisions, all the while feeling helpless knowing we have no power to shape the decision-making process until, in the best case scenario, the next election provides meaningfully different candidates. Spoiler alert: it won’t.
Disagree, if varying forms of populists win state level elections in Nebraska, texas, Iowa,Kansas and Maine, I think we see a massive flood of left aligned populists running in 2028