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by meheleventyone 1674 days ago
If there is an undemocratic layer exercising overall control then the net result is authoritarian. It would be neither distributed nor autonomous. It’s precisely why democratic governance generally tries to balance power between elements that can exercise checks on one another and why eroding those checks is so worrying.

Like if you’re trying to buy the constitution in a democratic fashion you’d think you’d at least try to understand what it means.