Sorry, things happened in my life and I’m not able to dedicate energy to talk about direct democracy.

I know it’s in french but it’s a really good ressource : https://ddirecte.org/

Thank you, talk to you about democracy was fun ^^

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The same way public petition work, if a law is needed people will campain around the issue and among thoose people some will draft legislation that could be made into law.

It’s hard to conceive a perfect system but to paint broad stokes :

Direct democracy mean that the final say is always in the hand of people rather than elected politicians. That doesn’t mean they aren’t people whose job is to draft up and propose legislation ! But thoose people can’t decide instead of everyone and have to listen to specialist and concerned people. To vote a law they have to convince and prove to everyone that it will be a net positive.

Think about it, how many time did you see senators that don’t know what a computer is vote laws that reshape internet for the worse. Or think about how leftist in the US are stuck with a center-right party ( Democrats ) that only listen to their donors.

Having direct democracy doesn’t mean that everyone has to be politicaly litterate or that legislation specialist stop existing. Ideally it’s a system that reward people solving problems and discourage self interested politicians.

Of course they are a lot of obvious flaw in what I said ( the first being how to decide what people mean ), it’s an ideal after all and I’m sure that there is a better way to define it. But that’s the neat thing about direct democracy, we can all find something better together. ( rather than beg a politicians whose only skill is being elected ).

I’m for direct democracy and I was trying to push in that direction but I’m all for fighting against gerymandering !

Props to you for fighting it since 2016, the plan bill look very nice !

Yes ! I totally agree !

I was pushing for direct democracy rather than telling people go give up fighting gerymandering, guess I failled to make my point ><

Not a defense of gerymandering but it’s fundamentaly impossible to draw electoral maps that represent people perfectly. Someone has to draw the maps at some point and bias is going to have an effect on that.

And that’s assuming people are well represented by their candidate of choice.