Libertarian Socialism

[Madness20]

Direct democracy is not in anyway a good idea, just saying - Democracy is already full of flaws with a representative system, most people are too ignorant to directly decide what's good or bad, are easily influenced by emotions and are not scientifically educated enough for it. Not even semi-direct democracy...

If there were 2 referendums, one asking "Do you wish for MORE public health services?" and another saying 'Do you wish higher taxes?", people would probably vote Yes and No respectively, which is incoherent by nature since public healthcare needs to be funded.

I have met many people in my life, older, younger, middle aged, and most possess basic or good skills for their lives, but I wouldn't trust 90% of them to make public decisions for all of us, even if there was an absolute majority - Majority doesn't equal being right.

Direct democracy is the best idea ever, it's just very hard to obtain.
The flaws of democracy most of the time can be adressed, but it's in the interest of the system to perpetuate things as they are, and allienate people on politics and on having more community "sense". The thing is, the ones that "could" do something are the ones that exactly act against it, our political and financial elites.

Obviously, in a direct democracy, people should be well educated and "configurated" into having real sense of community and taking decisions for the best of the community instead of only self-interest, which would require several things including loss of private property and wealth, into becoming community profit, and everything should be regarded with having the prespective of having community as the priority over self interests.

People aren't inherently capitalistic or with lack of community sense, with too much selfishness and individualism, it's the system, greed, shortages and opportunity to do it that are some of the main reasons for why some people become so selfish and corruptible.

That's why some ideologies try to adress a transition into a direct democracy, because we'll for sure need eventually a transition from our capitalistic ways in order to survive and not overpopulate nor waste resources on this little planet.