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While pointing out that the public at large is just wildly ill-suited to be making policy decisions on many topics which absolutely need to be regulated, lest companies cheap out on worker safety and get people killed, you're missing the far more pressing matter with this idea. This level on granularity is just absurd for direct democracy. The sheer number of votes such a system would entail would rapidly induce voter fatigue. Besides, even if it's just opening an app and clicking a button, how many voters have the time to stay informed on relevant developments related to upcoming matters to be voted on to actually have an informed opinion on the topic, and of those, how many would actually turn up to vote for the thing? NY had 39.6% of eligible voters not cast a vote in the 2024 presidential election, slightly below the national average of 36.1%. Last year alone, Governor Hochul pardoned 24 people, according to her site's press releases, 11 of which were the day before New Year's Eve, smack in the middle of the winter holidays. You folks really think you're going to get meaningful voter participation in 24+ elections a year (ignoring how many elections Trump would trigger with his presidential pardons, because this number is already unreasonable enough), when nearly 40% of eligible voters sat out the most heated presidential election in decades?
You can have direct democracy to an extent, but for the most part, you'd still need to leave the politicians and technocrats to do their jobs. Sure, there ought to be mechanisms for either the people or the government to trigger a popular referendum on a given matter (say, voters strongly feel that none of the politicians or governing bodies are reflecting their will on a matter, or a broadly popular policy is being blocked by obstinate opposition factions in a closely divided legislature, for example), but they really ought to remain exceptional incidents. Otherwise, you're doomed to get bogged down by rule by committee under a different name, and nothing is ever going to get done.
I wasn't missing it. I was just wondering what the other guy's solutions to all the other problems would've been before addressing the main blocker.
Assuming voters would go through 500+ pages of laws multiple times a week (because city voting, state voting, federal voting...) is just silly.
The discussion is about liquid democracy. It is only form of democracy that doesn't result in zionazi oligarchist corporatist supremacism, but generally, the privilege of voting on every pardon is not the main appeal.
My, bestest, form of liquid democracy is that you have the option to delegate your vote on any silo of topics/legislation to anyone who can delegate all the votes they "control" to anyone else too. So voter fatigue is not a real argument. You're not obligated to vote. If you had delegated your vote to someone who voted for pardon in OP, you might be pissed off at them, and "recall" your support immediately.
Digital ID is only reasonable under guarantee of a non evil state. Liquid democracy is both a great use of Digital ID, and only permitted imposition of it.
That's just wishful thinking.
Voter fatigue + lack of time to actually read the laws they're voting on means it would be even easier for "zionazi oligarchist corporations" to just have a group of couple of hundred employees whose only job would be to vote along the "zionazi oligarchist corporation's" line.
What do you do if you delegate your vote to X, X delegates their votes to Y, Y delegates them to Z and you realise that Z goes completely against your views?
Anyway, that's just representative democracy with extra steps. We already have this.
You withdraw your delegation from X, and lobby for others to withdraw support for Z, and introduce recall/revote resolution to overturn a bad law if you care about the bad law.
That's going to be far less than the 50% voting margin required to institute evil.
Generally, UBI means an alternative to any corrupt giveaway to a lobby group has the alternative of increasing the UBI. Business/Employees can still get rich by making something useful for the larger consumer base instead of lobbying government to extort employees, consumers and tax payers.
Corrupt representatives that ziosplain why you should suffer and die, and oligarchy needs all your money, instead of responding to people's needs, occurs because of the 2-4 year election cycle, and distractions during election time. You only need to fool most of the people on one day.
Why didn't you respond to my point about voter fatigue?
And you really don't see a problem with people giving and taking their votes away willy-nilly?
You really, honest to god, don't see this as yet another avenue for fraud, masqueraded as mistakes?
It's going to be vastly more than the 50% voting margin, because most people will be so overloaded with non-stop voting prompts, that they'll just stop doing it.
UBI only works for the "little man". It doesn't solve anything for Big Business and CEOs who make six to eight figures.
OK, here's an idea: before you start campaigning for a complete rebuild of the voting system that is 100% doomed to fail, how about you first read about democracies in other countries? Read about France, Spain, Sweden, even Poland with all its shortcomings.
Maybe you'll see that the issue is not with the system as it is, it's with education, involvement, and enforcement.
The US failed because of the lack of these three elements. If people were more educated, Trump wouldn't win. If more people were involved, Trump wouldn't win. If there was proper law enforcement, Trump wouldn't have been able to even start.
All three of these elements failed, creating the ultimate shitstorm.
Your system works perfectly fine.... on paper. Just like capitalism (remember "trickle down economy"? Assuming it works, we can presume everyone will be happy) or communism (assuming it works, we can presume everybody has access to everything).
The issue with your system is the exact same issue that makes capitalism or communism impossible - greed and laziness exist.
You get to delegate/redelegate your vote as often or rarely as you want to, instead of every 2-4 years.
UBI makes the rich richer, even with high taxes on the rich. Instead of government protecting the wealth of the rich through extortion power, the rich need to invest/work (or hire more) harder to collect back all of the tax money they spend. UBI saves money for society/taxpayers because war on (against???) poverty costs huge a huge bureaucracy expense, and while only essential role of governance, is a pointless distraction that would contribute to voter fatigue when all political capital is entrenched to make poverty a practical threat to oppress workers.
These are at least dysfunctional as US. Even more Russophobia and foreign (US) bootlicking control, with ultra cheap CIA/Atlanticist control of every political party allowed to run and all media. Democracy might as well be defined as how much a country supports genocidal US/Zionazi regime, because the correlation with "legitimate government" is absolute.
Liquid democracy, and perhaps even more, UBI makes truth and freedom more powerful for pluralist outcomes, because of the multitiude of personal freedom, including the freedom to promote social prosperity outcomes, without the corruption of money/media making truth/progress impossible. Constitution, and electoral theater, is absolutely worthless. There needs a military coup in order to evolve progress, because corrupt power politics ensures corrupt oppression.
Your genuinely absurd grasp to protect existing corruption and dysfunctional lack of any progress, saying the magic solution is better education and news fatigue, doesn't even have a path to more education, or more hate programing when the educated pick the less evil binary choice. You are simply disgusting for whatever dementia made you write this.
Ah... You're that kinda guy. Got it. Waste of time.
right. democracy's only right outcome is pursuing prosperity through war on Russia. More education, but don't learn about Hitler and Napoleon. We see what kinda guy you are.
You can have a pardon committee which isn't uncommon then you only would expect a vote if the governor pardons someone outside that in violation of norms.