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Re:Most Americans support using the popular vote to decide U... by AbrahamParangi on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @08:35AM (#32410869)
The alternative to choosing leaders by voting isn’t choosing them some other way – it’s not getting to choose at all.
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Re:Most Americans support using the popular vote to decide U... by shlurpy on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:37AM (#32411691)
Another alternative is voting without choosing leaders. Aka actually trying democracy.
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Re:Most Americans support using the popular vote to decide U... by hunglee2 on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:51AM (#32411926)
very good point. Perhaps representative democracy was always a perversion of it, a temporary step whilst we developed the communication technology to move past it
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