Direct Democracy Revisited with an Advanced Workaround…
Making the case for person to person, community to community, democracy with advanced guardrails (an ideals algorithm ), and more strategically and comprehensively involving a much larger percentage of Americans. Photo by Unseen Histories on Unsplash . . Essay originally published on Medium . . We must unlearn the theories that are distrustful of, or antagonistic towards, direct democracy , so we are able to survive and thrive, and continue our experiment at an unassailable social distance from autocracy, aristocracy, plutocracy, and dictatorship. That unlearning will also help us shed the rhetorical dilemma, and institutional perception, and indoctrination, of socialism and capitalism that causes so many rifts in our politics. There is an advanced form of direct democracy that does not require a separate economic theory. Citizens and workers decide how our economics will be arranged and our civic interactions will be conducted, not a coterie of megalomaniacal pluto