Dulfite said:
It truly is, and should be to everyone. People are ignorant and believe what they are fed. The media could come out with some crazy thing tomorrow, and go on a campaign for it for a month, and you'd see the public opinion change in the polls over it because people are easily manipulated. Our elected officials, for all their flaws, are considerably less manipulated than the average joe, and therefore are able to make better decisions than the average joe. Stories like "The Circle" like to romanticize the idea of direct democracy without realizing the MASSIVE issues it will have. What happens if 51% of the population wants one thing one day, and change their mind literally the next day? Do laws get changed everyday then, going back and forth depending on who is alive today and who watched the news and was fed lies today, or some some lying facebook ad today? As a conservative, I would rather have President Bernie Sanders, with Speaker of the House AOC and a 6-3 liberal Supreme Court than I would mob rule with direct democracy. I hope the POPULAR vote count is abolished one day, and we only see the electoral results. |
The person who got the most votes should hold office. Anything other than that is just bureaucratic tyranny. You don't actually know what a direct democracy is.
