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Fla Mom's avatar

Read Federalist 10 for the long version of 'yes, you're delusional.' That type of direct democracy has been tried many times in history and has been found to be both unfair (insufficient protection for minorities [not meaning racial minorities, in the modern fashion]) and unstable. Read also Plato's account of the suicide of Aristotle. The people who voted him 'off the island' regretted it almost immediately, but he was already dead. Also: people (as a group) don't really seem to learn from history, possibly because they're not taught it. For this example, read Polybius' The Histories, Book 6 (circa 100 BC). It should sound very familiar.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Thanks for the references as I pre-confirm my delusions. Feelin a mite deflated. Sigh.

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