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Is direct democracy a stupid idea, letting the dumbest most ill-informed have as much a say in the government as the smart/well informed ?

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  • Foofa
    Lv 7
    6 months ago

    This is why no nation on Earth uses national direct democracy. 

  • Anonymous
    6 months ago

    But that implies the very thing you pretend it doesn't.!!!!!

    It is the moral and not the smart . Because people like you always say that you are smart and others aren't

    John Adams

    Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

  • W
    Lv 5
    6 months ago

    There are only a few direct democracies left. Switzerland comes closest. The US is a republic, not a democracy. 

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