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Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life by marcosdumay on Monday May 17, 2021 @10:53AM (#27184123)
The OP was proposing ensuring that politicians answer to their electors.

The jump from there to direct democracy was already an straw-man. The jump from that to "no representatives on the middle" is completely baseless.

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Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life by weswpg on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:43PM (#27190096)
The suggestion being replied to here was: "I would vote for any candidate that committed to letting its registered users decide every vote he or she made."

I fail to see how that is substantially different from direct democracy.

What good would representative democracy be if each representative was just an empty vessel carrying out the collective wishes of a mass of Internet commenters?

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