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Thoughts about Direct Democracy? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 23 hours ago by thatonecoder@lemmy.ca to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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As the title goes - I think it's a good solution for some of the Western World's problems, like politicians not following their campaign promises. On the other hand, conflicting politics are a big possibility, which would create further problems. Any ideas?

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[โ€“] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. I guess the most important thing is to educate people, something that politicians haven't done, because they know that people wouldn't vote in them, if they were educated.

[โ€“] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 20 hours ago

Right. They need education to make judgements. They need independent and neutral media to stay informed about the facts. They need a minimum amount of intelligence in order not to fall prey to populists and the next pied piper / con man who has some "simple truths" for them. And they need the time to occupy themselves with the details, i.e. not an 70h workweek to make ends meet.