Re: [WDDM] Re: Regarding rule by representatives

["M. Kolar" <wddm(at)mkolar.org>]

echarp wrote:

> Do you have a /certitude/ that delegation would have the same drawbacks
> as representation?
Of course, no certainty. It is just an educated guess.

> I would think that delegation is not /quite/ like representation.
> Because it is *much* easier to control. You don't just vote and
> forget...
>
> Yes, lower thresholds are an alternative to a representation or
> delegation system. But they have one big disadvantage: the process could
> degenerate in a fight between disciplined groups. Parties following
> blindly all orders could be all powerful.
But how delegation will prevent this? By delegation you can make any
charismatic individual who is able to attract a lot of delegated votes
also very powerful.
I think that either you have a well educated citizenship willing to
participate in decision-making - such citizens will take matters in
their own hands no matter what obstacles they have to overcome and no
representation or delegation is needed, or people are largely
uninterested in public matters, and then nothing will help (more or less
the present state of affairs).
So it seems to me to better aim directly for education of citizens than
to lose time with devising various tricks that should make up for the
lack of interest in public matters.

Mirek