>Participatory decision-making involves the participation of all persons in decision-making on issues in proportion to the impact such decisions have on their lives.

I live in a country in the EU. 90% of the population does not understand supply and demand. Even more people do not understand the notion if "rhetorics".

You want those people to participated in making decisions? Do you really believe that?

I am so fed up with this vain anarcho bullshit. WAKE UP. People are dumb. Dumb as a brick. If you want to help them, you have to drag their body over to the finish line.

Perhaps we should fix democracy before we try to fix capitalism.

We should fix education before even attempting to fix democracy. Both scholarly and within the family.

Any attempts to temper with the social framework by largely un/poorly/mis-informed masses of people leads to catastrophes.

Russia 1917 Italy 1929 Germany 1934 Spain 1939

Some enlightened people will always try to exploit people's resentment to gain control and use it as they see fit. Soon the system is far worse than before.