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[CardMadMonster]

Did anyone else notice the clock in the background, it took him nearly two hours to record this video!

[davedudeit]

Direct democracy is tyranny of the majority and is uneconomical and usually ends in a dictatorship end of story!

[Wingz136]

Democracy is the worst kind of political system, except for all the others - Churchill

[DemocracyEverywhere]

Sortition is a part of direct democracy: Watch this video on youtube " sortition as a sustainable protection against oligarchy"

[JaredCans]

i say this is a bad idea because of the speed of which it takes to get things done. even now with just over 400 people voting it takes way too long to get even a tiny bit of progress done. Just look at the debt ceiling crisis. with over 311 million people presenting their views, and compromising to the point where almost nothing gets done, we still would be working on the debt ceiling right now. we need to decrease the members of congress, not make the voting pool bigger.

[Chiliplease]

This is a great concept, however quite dangerous when you think about all the extreme right-wing fools in this country. I would be pretty scared if this idea were to be applied to this country's legislative system. Were already fucked up enough, and considering the ratio of idiots to intellectuals in the USA,... Yeah, you get it.

[Jackson72O]

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." - Thomas Jefferson

America is not a democracy, nor do I ever hope it to be. Ask the average American what their views are on the most basic of political issues, and they'll either be on of the (approximately) 50% of U.S. citizens who don't vote, or recite what they've heard on FOX New/CNN/NBC/etc., and believe it to be absolute truth.

[LucBertolotti]

@davedudeit i didnt said it was bad. I said it was an oligarchy: patricians ruled the senate, plebeians initially had no rights and had to fight for it, slaves had no rights ever. All guaranted by rule of law. Ceaser didnt end the republic, after he was assasinated his murderers restored it.It was tribune Otavian(Augustus) who ended the republic proclaiming himself "princeps".

[davedudeit]

@LucBertolotti not true it was a very good example of a republic until it fell to its own greed and to Caesar.