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That's an interesting notion. Not to follow this tangent to far, but I think that most likely it is a more representative democracy. If you were to ask the people in the US if they want a bill that would allow law enforcement to "read the private messages of terrorist", I'd guess that most people would say yes, not knowing or understanding the ramifications of what the law would mean, or what a clear definition of what terrorist are.

But to the point, I do agree that mandatory voting may be actively harmful as it values all degree of civic engagement the same. That being said here in the states we have actively installed barriers to make voting more difficult. We aren't really getting better leadership or better laws from it.



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