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Pro-Palestinian firebrand Galloway wins Rochdale by-election in blow for UK Labour
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this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2024
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Unfortunately his party are climate change deniers... So that's a bit disappointing
This is how representative democracy works, none of the presented options are likely to be "perfect" for any given voter.
That doesn’t sound very representative
I can't imagine how a representative democracy would operate otherwise. In representative democracies you're picking some person to make decisions on your behalf, and that person is different from you so some of their decisions are not going be the ones you would have made if you were in their place.
You may be wanting direct democracy, in which you would personally get to vote on the government's actions. Your "representative" would be perfect in that case because your representative would be you. But since you would only represent yourself, that's not what would normally be called "representative democracy."
Exactly my point: It’s not an accurate representation. We should stop doing it.
And replace it with what? The only two basic forms of democracy are representative and direct, and direct democracy has its own problems.
Sortion, but dont shink of it as randomly choosing to fill a parliament. The scope and scale of task assigned a selected group of representatives must be kept small and the frequency in which people are chosen myst be high. Fortunately there is plenty of example in the process of jurior selection.