The concern is that they don’t care. I used to believe in direct democracy, but then I started organizing meetups and worked in customer facing roles for 15+ years. The average person doesn’t think about policy and is easily swayed by charismatic con men.
There were meetings and gatherings to discuss concerns and people could and would be relieved of their duties or at least seriously constrained in their freedom of action if their stance was deemed inadequate
That’s still representative.
More interventive and direct democracies must necessarily by navigated by long term goals
Someone still needs to prioritize policies then
I’m willing to chance we can “sit” and chat amiably for a bit and find a couple of subjects we can see eye to eye and build on each other point of view to reach consensus and solutions.
Having actually done that in relatively small groups, reaching consensus is a lot more difficult and tedious than you suspect.
The concern is that they don’t care. I used to believe in direct democracy, but then I started organizing meetups and worked in customer facing roles for 15+ years. The average person doesn’t think about policy and is easily swayed by charismatic con men.
That’s still representative.
Someone still needs to prioritize policies then
Having actually done that in relatively small groups, reaching consensus is a lot more difficult and tedious than you suspect.