I think about this comic all the time, even though it’s seven years old. (No reason.)
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I think about this comic all the time, even though it’s seven years old. (No reason.)
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But the premise of the comic is that the politicians are themselves pressured by the voters to represent positions they think are insane (and are actually insane?) and hope won’t actually become law, yet they do become law because the conspiracy to pretend to do something while doing nothing fails. With direct democracy you would assume those same laws would pass for the same reasons, not a different outcome.
Do you really think that so many people would suddenly care so badly about gender and immigration policy if they weren’t being induced with specific intention?
Just devil’s advocacy. I think you are right that direct democracy doesn’t protect us from moral panics, or even from people inducing moral panics for personal gain.