Message from @ElectricSwine
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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?
Yeah pretty much, the Weimar Republic was still a representative democracy
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
They'll need diferent types of peoples with different types of skills to actually maybe sustain themselves
Let alone be able to actually even trade with other comunities
If that was the case you might aswell call the region independent
But not for long cause unless they have a good farmer personel they would all starve
And that's without counting how to deal with internal strife
External threats that would want to put down this territory that is neither protected and isn't trading with them
I don't see a reason for why people can't be educated in a direct democracy, they would actually be more educated since people could go back to post-secondary without the threat of debt. Defense could also be sorted out in this manner, not to mention the fact that every commune is protected since everyone has the access, ability, and education to use violence. Defence forces as seen in Rojava are organized in the principle of direct democracy and they have been able to hold out against Turkey.
Well
This "army"
You have 2 options
A decentralised army, everyone making their own moves
Basically easy picks for bigger armies that just need to defeat them individually
Or a centealised comand
But then you have a direct democracy over a lot of people
And thus hundreds of opinions and diferent aproaches