RE: Libertarian Socialism
September 17, 2014 at 10:33 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2014 at 10:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Direct democracy also becomes unwieldy the larger the group becomes (even if they -are- competent individuals). If our arrangement of government becomes too bloated to actually perform it's duties then we effectively have no governance. Not that direct democracy is -the only way- to realize this scenario...but's it's one of the most direct routes to that place.
You also have the issue (if you parcel it up into little communities all doing their own thing) of compatibility. If you ever try to take a truckload of tomatos across multiple state lines you might find how quickly this spirals out of hand - and thats in a system designed to facilitate the movement of truckloads of tomatos. You might find yourself committing a crime simply by moving 1 foot in any cardinal direction (when every community is empowered to write their own rules)- which is somewhat disturbing, is it not ?
You also have the issue (if you parcel it up into little communities all doing their own thing) of compatibility. If you ever try to take a truckload of tomatos across multiple state lines you might find how quickly this spirals out of hand - and thats in a system designed to facilitate the movement of truckloads of tomatos. You might find yourself committing a crime simply by moving 1 foot in any cardinal direction (when every community is empowered to write their own rules)- which is somewhat disturbing, is it not ?
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