Message from @ElectricSwine
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Because even though you're basic rights could be guaranteed in a social democracy you still have the issue of a ruling class and a broken system of representative democracy instead of direct democracy
Direct democracy ain't that good
What's the issue with it?
Well
Normally it's a mess to organize
Then if you ever manage to organize such a thing
You end up with an asembly or whatever with people that have very different ideas on how to deal with the countrie's problems
And to top it off most of them can be inexperienced af
You have a good example of a society going maybe a bit too democratic
The weimar republic
There were no restrictions whatsoever in political parties
At first this sounds great right?
Well you end up realising there's more than 50 parties
To form a cabinet you must scramble through all of them to get a nish majority
And your goverment would fall apart whener one of those parties would withraw their support
Well you're assuming there would be some sort cabinet or national body, direct democracy operates on a small decentralized scale
There is no head or central leader
Alright, so like in comunities basically?
Anarchism?
You mean that?
Well
That's a bit tricky
At first an anarchist free territory might and just might be swallowed by another country
Considering there's nothing opposing it whatsoever and the region is isolated and doesn't trade anyways
Then there's the problem of organizing those communites to actually produce things efficiently for everyone to get their needs done
And when everyone gets a full say in that
Things get trickier
With hundreds of opinions on how to produce
Whenever to produce something at all
Or what to do with the produced things
It can work, yes
In fact there's a million worker cooperative here in spain, all of hem having a say
But they organize themselves into factions
And that slides into representatove democracy
Well direct democracy is really just rep democracy on a very small scale, you would see a ward of a hundred people or less electing a representative whom they can switch out at any time. Direct democracy would be more efficient since the lack of terms results in decisions being made faster than the bureaucracy found in modern rep democracies.
Direct democracy works but only in really small scales, that's the thing
What's the issue with it being on a small scale? A decentralized system would just function as a group of smaller systems working together. Which would solve issues faster rather than the bloated rep democracies we see today.
Well
That's optimistic
I do not trust a group of 100 people say all from the same region to solve their problems on their own and to manage themselves