[dorfsmay]

The concept of polical parties and MPs/MLAs voting whatever their parties is telling them makes no sense. Polarisation is making this issue worse.

It's 2022, we have technology that can make direct democracy cheap, easy and secure. Some countries are doing it the old fashion way, and it works.

In the meantime, proper representation is a good intermediate step:

https://www.fairvote.ca/

[TheOtherHobbes]

Policy is defined by whoever writes the laws and decides their content, not so much by who votes on them.

PR is definitely an improvement on FPTP, which is hugely biased towards the Establishment.

But it's still very vulnerable to well-funded PR and influencing campaigns.

Real democracy is difficult and precarious. Solutions have to be systemic covering not just politics but also law, the civil service, education at all levels, the media, the military and police, and ownership of key public assets.

[dorfsmay]

Don't you think laws will be written and advertised differently if every citizen has a chance to vote on them vs being slam dunk by the party in power?

There will still be well funded PR in a direct vote system, but it will hopefully be easier to expose and see the value of each law.

Sure the executive side of things can and should be improved, but it'll be harder, and I'd argue a different initiative.

[car_analogy]

> It's 2022, we have technology that can make direct democracy cheap, easy and secure

Are you from a parallel universe where operating systems, compilers, and software and hardware supply chains are secure against nation-state adversaries?

Obligatory https://cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Reflect...