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[loriverkutya]

Can you please be sensible? Direct demoracy is not working with 445 million people.

[lwn → loriverkutya]

In my opinion it's impossible for a small group of people/ politicians to determine what's good for 445 million people.

[bondarchuk → loriverkutya]

Mathematically it's not more difficult to determine the majority vote among 400 million people, than among 10 million. What would prevent it from working for you?

[tchalla → bondarchuk]

> it's not more difficult to determine the majority vote among 400 million people

Democracy is not majority voting.

[thegrimmest → tchalla]

"a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."

Basically it is. You don't need representatives to be democratic.

[effie → loriverkutya]

It could work, just do referendum in every country and then implement the result. It would require that people in power in all countries wanted to give power to their people, and implemented it securely. Which is why it won't happen.

[herbst → loriverkutya]

Yes? Any data for that?

[loriverkutya → herbst]

No direct democracy existed in known history with 445 million people.