[Youden]

> The reality is fine-grained democratic voting on every issue does not scale to today's world.

Tell it to Switzerland. The most recent referendum included such important issues as "should the government offer subsidies to farmers who leave the horns on their cows".

Having lived in Switzerland a while, direct democracy may not be perfect but it definitely works. It might not work in America but it works.

[manigandham]

I don't follow. The fact that such an issue was voted on is not evidence that it should be voted on by the whole population. How many really care or know about that situation? Why do you say that "it works"? In what way exactly?

Switzerland is also around 8M people which is smaller than some cities in bigger countries so it barely qualifies for the scale argument.