I don't think the greatest thing about democracy is that the elected politicians do exactly what the voters want them to do.
I don't think so either. The VAA idea should go in tandem with the other ideas, intended to reduce voters' degree of selfishness and tribalism, and to enhance the quality of political debates. We want an electorate of rational and altruistic voters to rule.
It's an interesting topic. I might write a longer post about it later on.
I don't think so either. The VAA idea should go in tandem with the other ideas, intended to reduce voters' degree of selfishness and tribalism, and to enhance the quality of political debates. We want an electorate of rational and altruistic voters to rule.
No. We want a group of rational and altruistic politicians to rule. In a representative democracy it's not the role of a voter to rule.
Besides rational and altruistic politicians we also want a public debate with multiple actors that each have different incentives. Newspaper journalists who care abou...
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