[lazide]

You have a huge, huge misunderstanding of how direct democracy turns out.

Everyone with a job gets inundated with bullshit, even eventually stops showing up (or paying attention) because it’s impossible to live and actual do that.

So then you end up with nut jobs doing whatever they want while having the votes because they are the only ones who show up at 11am on a Tuesday when the daily vote is happening.

Apps just tiktok’itize the whole process.

[QuercusMax]

You seem to have a very particular idea of how direct democracy might be implemented; there's no reason it has to be "show up at 11am on a Tuesday".

[lazide]

There is on average over 1 new bill a day that gets voted on in Congress. Those are the bills that get past committees.

Everyone still complains it is impossible to get Congress to actually do anything, since this is a huge country with 300+ million people.

If we didn’t have a ton of filtering (by whom? And who gets to decide that, is who has real power!) we’d probably have 10K+ new laws a day being proposed.

What do you expect the voting process to actually look like?

[QuercusMax]

I don't know what I expect the voting process to look like, but you seem to be assuming the worst without even thinking it through very much. I'm not an expert, I just don't think we should throw out ideas based on poor strawman implementations.

[lazide]

It’s well trod history, hah. The founding fathers directly wrote about and considered it too.

There are reasons why literally nobody does it, and it isn’t because it works too well.

[QuercusMax]

I don't know what I expect the voting process to look like, but you seem to be assuming the worst without even thinking it through very much.

[wing-_-nuts]

I'm not saying we put every insignificant little thing on the ballot, but lets say once every 4 years we take the real hot button issues that congress perennially uses as political football, and put them on a ballot. Abortion legal before the age of viability, yes or no. Medicare for all, yes or no. Legalizing cannabis, ditto.

I am sick and tired of congress basically ignoring the will of the people because some rich dudes with superpacs feel otherwise.

[lazide]

Who gets to decide what is insignificant or not?

They’re going to be the ones with the real power. Who gets to decide who they are?

The reasons these issues get used as political football is precisely because there is a lot less consistent belief on what ‘the right thing’ is to do on those issues than you’d think, which is why they can be polarizing. And trying to force everyone to follow the same rule is undesirable for a large portion of the population.

Why would they vote to be stomped on?