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I tended to think this, too, but India is a good example of how big doesn't contradict the ability to be governed by a democratic system, especially as democracy can be broken down into regional and local structures. Whether the US system can be called a democracy (electoral college, gun laws, staffing of SCOTUS) is a different question that, in my opinion, doesn't have a clear yes as the answer.
I don't know if the assumption is that it's the most effective but rather that it's not something that will foreseeably change given the current US system.
It's probably true that a democratic system is only viable with a population that shares a common set of values. I don't think US is too big in that sense yet, but there are obvious problems with the current system.
But then you would have more nuanced issues to deal with. Keep in mind that each state has only two senators. At some point, the views have to be broken down into well-defined issues. And then the parties have to further refine them to represent a national consensus. The two parties represent more general and widely focused approaches to governing. Third parties seem to be more narrowly focused and generally may not be representative of a majority.
Republicans will fight that to their dying breath because it gives rural communities outsized representation that tends to vote Republican.
No doubt that is true. That said, I think all small states, red or blue, would fight it. New Hampshire would not go quietly into political obscurity, for instance.
This raises the interesting question of a representative democracy vs a participatory one. In a small village, it can be truly participatory with all adults involved in group decisions. In ancient Greece, the Senate of all citizens (admittedly, only the men) met to agree upon common decisions. The argument for representation came about as group sizes got much larger, but with internet tools, could we consider more use of participatory democracy when making decisions? The cynic in me says that too many would not be bothered (just look at the percentage who vote), but still, those who do care have such a limited voice at present.
I would not trust using the internet. Is there any guarantee that there was no finagling at some point?
The average citizen doesn't have the time to become well informed on many issues. And a lot of people are just plain lazy—you know, like the ones who were just discovering on Election Day that Biden was no longer running for president. Frankly, I wouldn't trust an ignorant population to make wise choices on complex issues facing the nation. One of the advantages of having representatives is that their job is to become informed and try to reach good compromises.
Millennials didn't invent that one. That's been around a long time.
Of course, but if we can do secure banking, travel and other government documents and share trading all online, surely we can invent a secure way to seek opinions?
Agree to an extent. Allowing an uniformed group of possibly unwilling voters to chose representatives just pushes the problem further down the pipe. Being a citizen should mean holding responsibility - the country is not there solely to serve the people, the people also need to take their part. This possibly speaks to a larger problem in society/humanity - the ever increasing focus on self.
I think that it is clear that it wouldn't. The current Republican personnel can best be described as "rotten". I even have had the following dialogue in private:
I had thought that the impeachment proposition it was voted down, even by Democrats, who viewed it as an attempt at 'vote getting' from the sponsors and not to be taken with seriously.
www.impeachtrumpagain.org
