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Subject: Re: Democracy isn't dead, but maybe absolute representative democracy
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 03:55:27 -0600
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by: trotsky - Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:55 UTC

On 1/17/23 11:44 PM, RichA wrote:
> Lets face, it; a 51:49 election ratio disenfranchises 1/2 the country. Is that really fair? No. Is it fair citizens, once they elect a proxy for themselves do not get any real input on issues that impact them? When you elect someone and "your side" wins, you hope that the decisions they make mesh with what you want, but there is no guarantee of that. A beginning to this might be for citizens to participate directly in the most major decisions government has to make. Not the execution, that would be left up to the elected officials, just a yes or no vote on the decision to act or not. True participatory democracy.

Citizens frequently vote for referenda on their election ballots. I'm
not sure how it works in your shithole country.

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