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>Why do people need representatives in the age when everyone has a voice?

Because people are capricious, easily manipulated by emotion and generally refuse to acknowledge their ignorance on matters in which they insist on having opinions about.

Using the Twitter/Reddit voting model to run the world is absurd.



> Because people are capricious ...

Right. So you'd rather have them vote for a single candidate who sells them hopes and dreams that they'll make the right decisions to solve all their problems 4 years at a time, instead of voting for solutions to specific issues they're interested in where subject matter experts can actually improve things?

Corruption and greed are inescapable. At least by not giving a single person and party absolute power over everything, the damage can be contained to specific areas of government.

> Using the Twitter/Reddit voting model to run the world is absurd.

What's absurd is the current absolutist model that is easily corrupted via social media (Cambridge Analytica, etc.).


"where subject matter experts can actually improve things"

How to correctly mobilized the talents of subject matter experts is a complex issue, and no one is certain of the correct answer:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/why-have-politics-in-the-us...


> Because people are capricious, easily manipulated by emotion and generally refuse to acknowledge their ignorance on matters in which they insist on having opinions about.

So are a huge number of politicians.

It's also a slippery slope- where is the line drawn? We allow everyone to elect the government, but you don't trust them to vote on a referendum?




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