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Thoughts about Direct Democracy? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by thatonecoder@lemmy.ca to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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As the title goes - I think it's a good solution for some of the Western World's problems, like politicians not following their campaign promises. On the other hand, conflicting politics are a big possibility, which would create further problems. Any ideas?

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[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Lol, no it isn't a solvable problem, and let me be crystal clear here, techbros will never be able to solve this precisely because they think they can solve it.

[–] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think you misunderstand. I don't see that as the fix. A system like that would only work with an educated populace that understands more than the bare minimum to get by, if that.

The only real fix is a populace that can think critically and is informed, but even that's not easily attained at this point as there's so much money to be made with institutionalization.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Then yes I did misunderstand. I believe that democracy through the blockchain while a novel idea seems a bad idea to attempt IRL given who fills the cryptosphere.

[–] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 1 points 20 hours ago

Yes, it's technically technologically tryable but not practically politically possible.