Representative democracies will never understand

by Gian-Neymar

18 comments
  1. In the hands of some others, you end up with shit like Brexit.

  2. I wouldn’t even want the average Ronny to decide over my shirt’s colour.

  3. I do agree with Switzerland 🇨🇭 on this + the yearly rounds of referendums it helds.

  4. Just don’t look too closely at how it worked out for women’s suffrage, eh?

  5. Just wait until you make nuclear energy illegal due to a referendum, lol we were risking losing the divorce law

  6. Lmao imagine you do 20 referendums a year, just for every outcome to be: “foreigners still bad, everything should stay the same”

  7. Yeah, every valley is basically differently ruled. Because population of every valley is apx 400 people, few dogs and shit ton of cows.

  8. Based if you don’t live with apes. I’ll stay with my representative democracy for safety reasons

  9. Hans Pierre, you are spreading fake news.

    The landsgemeinde have become a rarity and they do it now only in bumfuck kantons like Appenzell Innerrhoden

  10. Probably unpopular opinion, but I think a purely direct democracy would be disastrous in most countries. Speak with your average guy, and they basically have no fucking clue about economics (labor market, GDP, how the budget works, how deficit works…), also no fucking clue about foreign policy, or about most things in general. Every single organization that works efficiently (not only governments, but also businesses) have someone in command that (ideally) knows what they’re doing and has people around them that know about different areas of expertise (economics, foreign policy, climate, healthcare, education…). Direct democracy might work in Switzerland, but only because they’re a highly educated country.

  11. “I’ll vote No because I don’t like the color of the socks the Yes guy is wearing.”

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