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Topic	Would you rather politicians did
Airship_Canon 01/23/18 8:17:33 PM #11:	NFUN posted... The West has representative democracies/republics rather than direct democracies for a very good reason Because Direct Democracies are overly complex despite their seeming simplicity, and if you can't get a couple hundred people to agree on shit, you certainly can't get hundreds of millions. A direct democracy would fail at the first budget crisis because there'd be too many damn ideas for any one of them to gain enough traction. Representatives are their to streamline the stupidly complex part of running the system, not to arbitrate. --- http://i.imgur.com/0GZFPf1.gif <cite>Airship_Canon posted [p:894667116] in Would you ... [t:76235369]...</cite> <quote><cite>NFUN posted...</cite> <quote>The West has representative democracies/republics rather than direct democracies for a very good reason</quote> Because Direct Democracies are overly complex despite their seeming simplicity, and if you can't get a couple hundred people to agree on shit, you certainly can't get hundreds of millions. A direct democracy would fail at the first budget crisis because there'd be too many damn ideas for any one of them to gain enough traction. Representatives are their to streamline the stupidly complex part of running the system, not to arbitrate. --- http://i.imgur.com/0GZFPf1.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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