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    1 year ago

    Representative democracy with voting rights for all citizens over the age of majority might be the best system we’ve tried

    Where? Closest thing I see is a “Rule of representatives elected by representatives elected by less than half the citizens over the age of majority” thing.

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      I believe that’s the point being made. “Representative Democracy”, or at least the pretense of which some live under at this time, is the best we (“we” referring to a particular group of people, not humanity as a sum) have found so far.

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        I get the point. My point is that we’re still far from trying an actual “Representative Democracy” for any largish group of people, and that the Democracy of ancient Greece, with all its glaring flaws, was more Democratic than anything we have right now.

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        As opposed to FPTP, gerrymandering, multi-layer representative cutoffs, regional vote weight balancing, or the D’Hondt method?

        What’s your basis to think that?

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            I’m not USA-n either, so only most of those apply to the flavor of “democracy” I get. It’s still a good exercise to know about the options.

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            Indeed. I highly encourage everyone to learn about how “democratic” they actually are.

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                Sure:

                Indeed.

                Expression of agreement with the previous comment.

                I highly encourage everyone to learn…

                My wish is to improve the knowledge of the reader and anyone else…

                …about how “democratic” they actually are.

                …about the different political systems which get called “democracies” by different countries around the world, and how their practical applications differ from the idealized concept of “democracy”.