RE: Libertarian Socialism
September 17, 2014 at 12:21 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2014 at 12:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:If I had a degree in agriculture, that wouldn't give me the skills to make decisions when it comes to fishing.Or- for that matter, agriculture. Experts make poor policy decisions all the damned time - even within their own area of expertise.
I agree, that at a very small scale - probably not even on the "local" level but on the neighborhood or city block lvl (gotta remember, some "localities" have 2.5 million people in them.....) some direct democracy would be nice. It would have to be incredibly limited in it's scope though (and to my mind, limited by a national government). Also, as soon as we say "if they are competent" it's not direct democracy anymore. Direct democracy allows "the incompetent" to have a say and potentially, for that say to be the final word- it must (and this is the easiest and quickest criticism of the idea, on practical grounds and others). When we slim down the pool of possible voters along those lines we're talking about a different arrangement.
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