(May 20, 2015 at 9:19 pm)Saxmoof Wrote: ... A much better media than we have currently could potentially do this
And how do we get this "much better media than we have currently?" We have what we have, not what we wish we had. There is no reason to believe that a direct democracy would eliminate special interests or biassed reporting that willfully misleads people. Indeed, if people are directly voting for things, there is a much greater motive to mislead people about everything. Now, they only need to be misled enough to vote for assholes, whereas with direct democracy, the rich need to make sure people are misled on everything, in order to get the voting to go their way.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
