Government should be smaller! - eviltoast
  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    Yeah no…as much as our current system sucks, I’d rather have some sort of a buffer before full on mob rule.

    People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals…and you know it.

    Full on direct democracy sounds like a good idea. Until you realize it’s two wolves and a sheep making dinner plans.

    • Pennomi@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      I fail to see how that’s different than the way it currently works, except you get the tyranny of the far right minority instead of tyranny of the majority.

      Or another way to look at it, with your analogy, instead of two wolves, you have one professional career wolf who is far more effective at his job.

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        10 hours ago

        Nah it’s more like the wolves lawyers and the sheep’s lawyers fight it out. Like a proxy war.