Direct democracy doesn't work because the average voter is dumb as fuck, but with representative democracy, capitalism will always steer the representatives away from the interests of the average voter. When things are good, they tend not to care, but once they're not, far-right populism every time.
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at least democracies have the best chances to course-correct (China's communism is only one bad choice of a leader away from failure).
what we experience here (among other things):
We knew it but couldn't prevent it: no/soft antitrust enforcement, taxes, citizen united etc...
I'd say we know how to fix that but not how to ensure it long term.
This is more intractable imo.
too fast, too emotion-driven, fake news, influencers as relay for parties/candidates, hard to regulate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/06/trump-white-house-media-social-influencers/
/fin
But, yeah, it's a cycle. Aristocracy => timocracy => oligarchy => democracy => tyranny => revolution.
Each voter can select another voter as a proxy whose ballots shall be copied to their own. Separate proxies can be designated for various categories of vote. The voter can always check their votes' current status and override proxies.
I actually think it is still not direct enough, it's not like we vote on everything.
I think what doesn't work is having any kind of represenratives.
Clearly the facing problem for the voter are misinformation, fake news, disinformation and so on.
Bluesky is way more polished and clearly permits to have a more accurate opinion about political parties, elections as political leaders.